I want to use C# to manage Excel read/write with the following method:
How to: Use COM Interop to Create an Excel Spreadsheet (C# Programming Guide)
Before using COM Interop API , most articles said that I should install Office Developer Tools . so ,is it possible to use Visual studio Express 2017 to fulfill its demands.If not, is there another way to manage excel read/write through C#? thanks!
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Is it possible to use Visual Express editions to make a class library for Excel UDF functions and use it as an add-in?
I am looking for information from ground.
So far, I tried using VS express *C#) 2008
- to make a class library with my pre-defined functions, but compilation error
[ access denied to write to registry]
I am an administrator and do not understand why.
You can use Excel-DNA with any edition of Visual Studio (in fact any text editor) to create user defined functions for recent versions of Excel.
If you intend to produce native code .xll add-ins, you will need to use the C language library that is not available with the Express edition.
I have developed an excel addin using VSTO in C#.net .Now i want to deploy this addin in other machines too .So that users who installed this can see my addin in excel menu -> Addins-> MyAddin
Alternatively can i give them just Excel with myaddin.So that whoever has this Excel can access addin and use it.This way they don't see myaddin in every excel file addins menu.
You can use a Visual Studio 2010 setup project to create a Windows Installer package. See this MSDN Link
Quote from that Link
Summary: Learn how to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the
Office system 2010 add-in or document- level solution using a Visual
Studio 2010 setup project to create a Windows Installer package that
targets the 2007 Microsoft Office system or Microsoft Office 2010.
Wouter van Vugt, Code Counsel
Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group
This article was updated by Microsoft with permission from the
original authors.
Applies to: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office, 2007 Microsoft Office
system, Microsoft Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010.
Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VSTO2010MSI
Contents
Overview
Deployment Methods
Deploying Office solutions that target the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office runtime
Download Samples Provided with this Article
Creating a Basic Installer
Conclusion
Additional Resources
About the Authors
EDIT
You may also see this link for All Users.
Conceptually, all you need to concentrate on is get yourself a COM object created which must be running even when the application (MS Excel here) is not open in the explorer.
More can be figured out from the following link :
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7859/Building-COM-Objects-in-C
(P.S : link is for c# not c).
Next you should give your users a .exe file including code to create the COM object.
I'm trying to develop an MS Office Addin in C# .Net and I don't have access to Visual Studio. Instead I'm using SharpDevelop as my IDE, (but my question is equally relevant to anyone developing using any other IDE or compiling from the command line...)
I've done a bit of searching for guides on how to develop AddIns, but they all seem to require Visual Studio and follow these steps:
Install the Interop Assemblies
Create a Visual Studio .Net Project (I'm unable to do this bit)
Extend the VS ThisAddIn template
What I've managed to do is to:
Install the Interop Assemblies
Create a C# empty SharpDevelop project
Add a GAC reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook
Add a COM reference to Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library
add the line using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
and the line using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;
Look at some example code and realise that they all refer to VS templates and VSTO libraries (Microsoft.Office.Tools) which I don't have.
Where do I go from here? Is there a guide/tutorial I've missed, or can someone provide some pointers?
NetOffice (http://netoffice.codeplex.com or https://osdn.net/projects/netoffice/) is a great set of version-independent interop assemblies for Office. This is all you need to make add-ins using SharpDevelop, and the project has a bunch of tutorials and samples too, including some for Outlook.
If you're making an add-in for Excel using Excel-DNA (which you need to expose user-defined worksheet functions from .NET), NetOffice still gives you a complementary set of libraries for accessing the Excel COM automation interfaces from your Excel-DNA add-in, so they work together well.
For both NetOffice and Excel-DNA, you'll also be able to use the free Visual Studio Express editions (with some small tricks needed to get debugging working). Visual Studio Express does not include VSTO at all. SharpDevelop also has many more features than the Express editions, like built-in refactoring and VB.NET <-> C# translation tools, so there are good reasons to prefer SharpDevelop as your free IDE.
EDIT: I missed the reference to Outlook, my apolgies.
For Outlook, look here. Outlook Redemption is useful.
I'm not a Word Expert, but there are plenty of tutorials on the web.
For Excel I'd suggest you actually look at ExcelDNA
Plenty of SO questions on this topic. See Exposing .net methods as Excel functions? for example as additional advice on where to start and what your options are.
HI All,
I want to export the excel file using c# and in excel it should have a ribbon (button in excel) called as refresh which will get the latest data from server.
Please let me know how to go forward..
You should have a look at VSTO. Visual Studio Tools for Office allows you to customize Office applications, using .Net. For Excel, you can customize specific documents or write add-ins, working from Visual Studio, in VB.Net or C#.
Whats the best way to create the multi language installer for Office Addin Deployment Setup?
Is it possible using VS.NET 2008, C# or do I need to use any 3rd party tool or like install shield 2009 ??
I would suggest using InnoSetup, its free and supports multiple languages.
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php