excel

How can I get WorkbookPart from WorkSheet ?

Hi, I am trying to create Excel file using OpenXML SDK. I have one situation to get WorkBookPart from WorkSheet instance. How can I get it? Thanks. Ant. ...

Hyperlink to a cell?

I want to retrieve a hyperlink to a cell in Excel and then paste this hyperlink in a third party app. Clicking the hyperlink should load Excel with the appropriate workbook and that cell should be selected with the cursor. The hyperlink should work in Microsoft-related products like OneNote; for example, if I have a workbook "D:\abc....

Getting this error while reading excel

I have code string conn = @"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;DSN=Excel Files;DBQ=" + strSheetPath + @";DriverId=1046;FIL=excel 12.0;MaxBufferSize=2048;PageTimeout=5;"; //string conn = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + strSheetPath +";Extended Properties=Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES;IMEX=1"; string destinationConnectionStri...

Opening Excel file in a SharePoint document library from VSTO with specified credentials

I'm trying to open a workbook from within Excel. The Excel file is located on a SharePoint server, within a Document Library. I use the following code to open the workbook. newWorkbook = globalsThisAddInApplication.Workbooks.Open( workbookUrl, Type.Missing, false, Type.Missing, Ty...

Why is checking out an excel document programmatically from SharePoint not working

I'm trying to check out a document from SharePoint from VSTO. But it keeps nagging that the document cannot be checked out. I'm able to check out the document manually, using the same credentials. What I already saw is that if I turn off the "Require Check Out", that I can perform a check out on the document programmatically. Unfortuna...

How to read more than 256 columns from an excel file (2007 format) using OLEDB

I'm trying to import a excel file with more than 256 columns using OLEDB in C#. I tried all kinds of things, but it doesn't seem to be possible to read more than 256 columns from a excel (2007 format) file. I'm wondering if it's a bug or I'm simply missing something. Here is the connection string I used: Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12....

How to generate XML from an Excel VBA macro?

So, I've got a bunch of content that was delivered to us in the form of Excel spreadsheets. I need to take that content and push it into another system. The other system takes its input from an XML file. I could do all of this by hand (and trust me, management has no problem making me do that!), but I'm hoping there's an easy way to writ...

Using Wrapper objects to Properly clean up excel interop objects

All of these questions: Excel 2007 Hangs When Closing via .NET How to properly clean up Excel interop objects in C# How to properly clean up interop objects in C# struggle with the problem that C# does not release the Excel COM objects properly after using them. There are mainly two directions of working around this issue: Kill the...

Excel automation: Close event missing

Another hi all, I am doing Excel automation via Interop in C#, and I want to be informed when a workbook is closed. However, there is no Close event on the workbook nor a Quit event on the application. Has anybody done that before? How can I write a piece of code which reacts to the workbook being closed (which is only executed if the ...

DataGenerationPlan : using Excel as a bound data source?

I followed the instructions in this document: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386244.aspx And in the final step nothing appears as a choice in the "Generator Output" dropdown. (Ultimately, I want a file of sample data that I can check in with my Visual Studio Database project so all developers get the same data and thus gene...

How can I influence the Interop.Excel Application.UsableWidth?

I'm generating an Excel document server-side using .NET Interop.Excel and Office 2007. One problem (so far) is that FreezePanes does not work consistently. For some users, Excel automatically hides the first few columns if it thinks the freeze point may not be visible. I've captured several variables trying to debug this, and the criti...

Releasing Excel after using Interop

Hi everyone I've read many post looking for my answer, but all are similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1610743/reading-excel-files-in-vb-net-leaves-excel-process-hanging My problem is that I don't quit the app... The idea is this: If a User has Excel Open, if he has the file I'm interested in open... get that Excel in...

Excel Regex, or export to Python? ; "Vlookup" in Python?

heya, We have an Excel file with a worksheet containing people records. 1. Phone Number Sanitation One of the fields is a phone number field, which contains phone numbers in the format e.g.: +XX(Y)ZZZZ-ZZZZ (where X, Y and Z are integers). There are also some records which have less digits, e.g.: +XX(Y)ZZZ-ZZZZ And others with ...

Excel/SQLite date serial numbers

How can I get SQLite to convert excel-type serial numbers to dates, e.g. I want the integer 40074 in a table to somehow get the date 18-Sept-2009? The dates are already in SQLite. ...

Pivotcache problem using ado recordset into excel

I'm having a problem with runtime error 1004 at the last line. I'm bringing in an access query into excel 2007. I know the recordset is ok as I can see the fields and data. Im not sure about the picotcache was created in the set ptCache line. I see the application, but the index is 0. Code is below... Private Sub cmdPivotTables_Cli...

what is this value means 1.845E-07 in excel ?

Hi , i am reading the excel sheet from c# by using interop services. My sheet have one of cell value as 0.00. but run time when i checking the value of that cell in c# code I am getting "1.845E-07" this value. When i check in excel sheet, on that cell right clicked , say format cell I got "1.845E-07" value in sample section. How to get e...

How to prevent GetOleDbSchemaTable from returning duplicate sheet names from Excel workbook

Hi I have a function to return a DataView containing info on sheets in an Excel Workbook, as follows: Public Function GetSchemaInfo() As DataView Using connection As New OleDbConnection(GetConnectionString()) connection.Open() Dim schemaTable As DataTable = connection.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchem...

How to handle the Date column of excel sheet in C# code?

Hi I am reading the Excel sheet in c# using interop services. My excel sheet have the date columns of formate dd/mm/yyyy. while reading , runtime i am getting some different values for each cell as :38840,38808,39873...so n so... what does that mean? please help.How to handle the date columns of the excel sheet in C#. please guide me. ...

Issue while reading excel column names by using GetOleDbSchemaTable

After some google searching I found out how to read excel column names How To Retrieve Schema Information by Using GetOleDbSchemaTable and Visual Basic .NET . Though the sample is in VB.Net, I am using C#.net. My code is : public DataSet ReadXslToDataset(string fileName,string sheetName) { ConnectionString = ...

Store #VALUE! #NUM! #REF! in variable.

So a simple version of what I'm trying to do. Say I know there is an error in cell(1,1), furthermore I know it is either #num!, #ref! or #value!, I want to be able to store the respective error message in a variable, so I can print it to a different sheet. This is what I tried and it clearly failed. Sub FindAndPrintErrors dim Store as...