What I'm trying to do is create an excel chart in a spreadsheet that I've just created using VB.Net code. I get the spreadsheet and chart created fine but then I get this error. An unhandled exception of type 'System.MissingMemberException' occurred in microsoft.visualbasic.dll. Additional information: Public member 'xlColumnClustered' on type 'Integer' not found. [Code]
View 1 RepliesError: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A03EC): Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC is thrown after execeution of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass.set_Calculation(XlCalc ulation RHS)
Out of nowhere COM start throwing exception when I set change excel's Calculation property. Line of code that followed set_Calculation was.Workbooks._Open. This used to cause exception every second try. Than I changed order, first open workbook and than set calculation property. Amount of exceptions start decreasing than I added thread.sleep(200) and exception is not thrown anymore. This happens only on one some of user machines while others are fine.Application itself is single threaded so this delay should be of importance if and only if set_Calculation is executed asynchronously. What I'm missing here?
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We have a VB 2005 program that reads data from a database and builds an Excel output file to be emailed. This works fine from my computer but when we put it on the server it fails on the Excel functionality.
The error is: Unhandled Exception: System.Runtim.InteropServices.COMException
Although Excel is not installed on the server we did also build a Setup program to install our program. It copies the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excell.dll to the server folder with the exe.I thought the setup program should register the Excel DLL and the program should work even if the server does not have Office or Excel installed.
We have created a dll to convert an excel spreadsheet to a csv file. At the moment we open the xls file, an eror occured (file doesn't exist / is used by an other user)
Used code:
Dim excel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Dim wb = excel.Workbooks.Open("d:my.xls") '<<<<<<<<<<< not possible to open
wb.SaveAs("d:my.csv", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat.xlTextMSDOS)
wb.Close(SaveChanges:=False)
I am trying to read some data from an Excel 8.0 worksheet using OLEDB thusly:(Warning - contains curly braces)
Code:
DbProviderFactory factory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory("System.Data.OleDb");
using (DbConnection connection = factory.CreateConnection())
{
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The problem is that for some columns it sets the data type to be Double even though the spreadsheet column format is "Text" and teh column contains non-numeric data. Then when it gets to that cell it returns DBNull instead of the text value.
[URL] using this method results in a modal dialogue box which the user must manually close by pressing end or debug or the VBA (and consequently the VB) code will hang.I am unsure how to get the message box to close.
View 11 RepliesI am writing a WinForm app on Visual Studio .Net 2005 which will be a rudimentary "unit tester" for various MS Excel 2003 applications...basically, it will ensure the integrity of the VBA code which fires off in the event lifecycle of the workbook.As a test for a "unit test failure," I created a simple workbook which generates a runtime error at the Workbook_Open event in the VBA code (an intentionally placed out-of-index call to an array). I have no problem opening workbooks via the .Net WinForm using the Excel Object library. My problem is that the run-time error is not captured by the WinForm app -- instead, it throws the runtime error directly on the Excel thread which the WinForm app starts.Is there a way for the WinForm app leveraging office interop to catch that excel runtime exception?
I've tried encasing the call in a Try-Catch block using a general Exception a COMException (via the System.Runtime.InteropServices library) catch...I've also tried instantiating the workbook directly using CreateObject(sPath) and instantiating an Excel Application, then using that to open the workbook...all with the same results...instead of the .Net app catching the exception, the runtime error bubbles up directly to the Excel application.Is there any way, either on .Net or the VBA code, for the WinForm app to catch and handle an Excel run-time error?
i am using visual studio 2005 and sql 2005 currently i am doing a system registration for staff using windows form,in the system new staff must register they detail, once user type his detail than this error is come out here i attach the picture and coding. I also highlight where is probleam come out for your info my database name is databse name is = login, table name is staff. using will put their detail in text such i write below after doing that i try to click button registe and suddenly this error come out.[code]
View 3 RepliesI've automated quite a bit with excel and every so often one of these really annoying glitches pops up.I'm using Office 2003, all with latest service packs and everything, and basically I usually end up creating a lot of applications which automate excel, processing database information and exporting it etc, etc, etc.
I currently have finalized this most recent export process, which exports a moderately sized table into excel for the user to work with, but I wanted to adjust the printing area appropriately.SO, I set the PrintArea to the A1:K47 string, I set the FittoPagesTall/Wide to 1 and the Orientation to Landscape, and all of this is perfectly functional from my 2008 .Net 3.5 application. But in the open application window of the file i'm automatically creating, the page divider lines still show 4 pages of data. Now, I said to myself, i know that in the Page Setup Dialog I can set "Fit to Page" and it automatically adjusts the zoom factor (scaling) to fit the print area onto 1x1 pages.
The only property in the WorkSheet.PageSetup that appears to do this is the ChartSize property, but when I step over that line in the Application I'm debugging, I get the Exception:"Unable to set the ChartSize property of the PageSetup class"Now the only thing i've seen online about this error from Microsoft says it could occur when a printer isn't installed. That is not the case here.
I further looked up in the property and it said something about only being applied to "Chart Sheets" but when I try to use the workbook.worksheets.add() method witht the Type set to xlChart I get a com object disconnected from RCW error.NOw, I can manually go into the Page Setup Properties for the Excel Worksheet, and set the "FIt to Page" there, so How can I forcibly automate this exact same process without having to open the Excel APplicaiton.
Basically I've coded an Excel 2007 project in VB.NET 2010 that allows you to create charts with a fair amount of interactivity. I want the user to be able to save and reopen this workbook and still have that interactivity in any already-created charts, so they don't have to re-create them.
When I create the charts, I use Sheet1.Controls.AddChart(...), which returns a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart with which I can handle events and such. However, when I reopen the file and look through the Sheet1.Controls collection, there are no Chart objects. Accessing the charts through Sheet1.ChartObjects.Chart gives me Interop Charts, when I need the Tools Charts.
what's wrong with this code? I keep getting error that says "An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll"
View 8 RepliesI am working on a multi-form code. For some reason, this randomly began happening just about the time I finished my code. The intial form loads just fine, but when I go to click on any of the selected buttons, the code crashes. and I get an unhandled exception of type 'System.stackoverflowexception' occured. Does anyone have any ideas? I have checked for any subs calling subs that call subs and I don't have anything of that nature. It is breaking at the point that is bolded and underlined.
Public Class Add_Description
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
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I am using VB.NET 2005 to create a Windows forms application. I have a procedure named SendMail that creates an instance of Outlook.Application, to send an email from my application. I found the code on this forum, I think.The procedure works fine, but I can't use error handling with it.I call the procedure from a button click event. I put the procedure call in a try/catch block, and the application won't build, with the following error.
Error 68 'Catch' cannot catch type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Exception' because it is not 'System.Exception' or a class that inherits from 'System.Exception'. C:datadevdmtiQTSQTSv7_1_20100212wQTSQTSReportsCriteria
pt_frmReportViewer.vb 43 21 QTS
Here is the code:
Sub SendMail(ByVal sFile As String)
' Create an Outlook application.
Dim oApp As Outlook._Application
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It appears that when one creates an instance of Excel, using CreateObject, (Late binding), the suggested Excel closing function (with GC.collect etc) does not work. I have tried several suggestions, and the only one that works is process.kill method. Do you see any problem in using this? BTW: the reason we are using late binding is that we cannot use Office PIAs....not sure which version of Office would be installed on the client site. We work with O2003, but the client might still be at 2000 or 2002.
View 7 RepliesI am working on a multi-form code. For some reason, this randomly began happening just about the time I finished my code. The intial form loads just fine, but when I go to click on any of the selected buttons, the code crashes. and I get an unhandled exception of type 'System.stackoverflowexception' occured. I have checked for any subs calling subs that call subs and I don't have anything of that nature. It is breaking at the point that is bolded and underlined.
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Dll libray with VC++
.h file
__declspec (dllexport) unsigned long QueryUser(const wchar_t* AccountName,
wchar_t FullUserName[100],
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an error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' occurred in TestLib.exe
I have problem in calling DLL file in VB.Net that I had Created it in C++... it give me this error message: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.EntryPointNotFoundException' occurred in test_dll_1.exe. Additional information: Unable to find an entry point named 'add_1' in DLL 't1.dll'."
This is my code in C++ (header file)
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The one in the main
#include "header_1.h"
double add_1(double a, double b){
return (a+b);
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This code only for creating dll and I did created it correctly and i had tested it in c++ and it did works.... but in the Vb.net I had no luck with it...This is the code that I wrote it in the VB.net
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class Form1
<DllImport("t1.dll")> Public Shared Function add_1(ByVal a1 As Double, ByVal a2 As Double) As Double
End Function
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And, I did put the .dll file in the bin folder, but also with no luck...
I am new to this forum - and while I have programmed in VB.Net for some time, I am also new to Office Automation - so please bear with me We are creating a Metrics presentation in Powerpoint 2003.Currently, the presentation is manually created. We are automating this through VB.Net. I figured out how to add the slides from the template. I can modify text boxes and other objects other than the MS Chart objects. I can modify MS Chart objects - but find that after updating the chart, saving it, and closing the application - it apparently doesn't save correctly. When I reopen the presentation, it originally shows up with the changed data. Once I double-click it, however, it doesn't keep the modified data.
I looked at the properties of the graph in VB.Net - and it looks like the chart shape is read-only. I thought of two solutions - one: copy the chart, modify a local copy, and paste it over the original, or two: make the read-only chart writable. Problem is - I'm at a loss for how to complete both of these.As far as the copying of the chart, I found some information about using the .Copy() command, so I cam up with the code
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program supost to control (projector - done..., webcam - idk how do i read FPS of the camera ..., arduino - will take me 5 min...)
here is the code of form1:
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it chrashes here is the error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in Unknown Module.
I have written an automation addin in Excel with C# (addin.dll). To use the addin, I need to 1. register it using "regasm /codebase c:...addin.dll"2. select in ExcelOptionsAddInsExcel AddinsAutomation the respective addin from the list
I would like to automatize 1) and 2), so that the user just needs to run an exe-file in order to use the addin. 1) should be no problem, but how can one automatize 2)?
Ok basically what I need to do is the following:Read FirstExcelDoc (attached)For every row in that: Retrieve data from sql server db based on info in the Orange columns of FirstExcelDoc Let's say I retrieved data elements A, B, C, D, and E from sql server. Then I need to enter those same data elements A, B, and C in another excel spreadsheet (which has formulas etc) After inputing A, B, and C in that spreadsheet, read a couple of calculated fields and compare those results to data elements D and E retrieved originally from SQL Server DB. Finally, output the results in the Blue columns of the FirstExcelDoc spreadsheet for that row.Loop through and do the same thing for row 2 of the FirstExcelDoc and keep on until you see "END TEST" in the FirstExcelDoc.
I'm looking for a method of doing this efficiently. I have read several articles over the past few days as well as those from Mike R. but just need some direction to get started on this.To start of I'm looking for whether to read the entire FirstExcelDoc spreadsheet or just read the info for first policy number(2nd row) and process it and write out the blue column info for that row and then loop through and come back and read the second policy number (3rd row) etc... Please attach a code snippet for either way of reading the data.
I'm using excel via interop in application.Sometimes users kill application that created excel instance and that results in excel instance sitting in memory without any chance of disposing it.First I tried to tackle this using ROT(running object table) looks like not all instances of excel are registered there.Than I tried to somehow mark excel process after it is started via interop.[code]This works as long as excel is visible but in my case excel window is invisible.All I need is to somehow mark process that started via automation with the parent PID, so that later I can kill it if parent does not exist.
View 19 RepliesAn unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in STUB_CREATOR.exe Additional information: Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A0036 (CTL_E_BADFILEMODE)
This is the line that creates the error
Dim f As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
starter = f.OpenTextFile(stub_path.Text + "" + cpp_file, Scripting.IOMode.ForWriting)
I have just previously opened the file for writing. but however i have closed the textstream with which i was writing into the file.
I have been pulling my hair out trying to fix this.
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We have a vb program which is run on our server by scheduled task every day. The program opens about 30 excel files, refreshes the data connections, pivot tables and then saves the document in another location.
This may run fine for a couple days but sooner or later the process starts crashing, usually with this error: RPC_E_SERVERFAULT.
My question is, Is it expected that continually opening/closing/refreshing workbooks will inevitably cause the Excel object to crash at some point.
i was wondering if someone could give me the final explanation on what i might be doing wrong here.I spent a lot of time reading around the net and the forum about how to add Threading capabilities to a VB project.
Nos, i've got .NET 4 installed, and i've added the system.tsr and mscorlib.dll files as reference in, say, Excel 2007 (see screenshot).However, when i try to make a thread with anything as basic as "Dim Thread1 As System.Threading.Thread", i get a user-defined type not found error.Indeed, when i use the object browser to see what's in the System file, theres nothing remotely linked to any Threading, and in the mscorlib file, nothing under "Threading" either, just a few Thread related functions, but nothing defining a data type
I'm having an issue where my excel.exe process doesn't close until I close my .net application. I'd like to avoid using Process.Kill() if at all possible.
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Private Sub WriteRowsToXls(ByVal rows As DataRowCollection, ByVal xlsPath As String, ByVal showStatus As Boolean, Optional ByVal AddTotals As Boolean = True)
Dim xlsApp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
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This method references a couple of other methods I use for repeated formatting tasks, I'll include those methods below. (I added the FinalReleaseComObject into the other methods after reading Mike's thread but the issue persists)
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Private Sub SetRangeValidation(ByVal rng As Range)
With rng.Validation
.Delete()
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Method SetRangeAllBorders does about the same as these other methods but my post is too long to add it. The only other things not shown in these code snippets are a few string variable that are defined in the class, studentWS, studentsWSPW, paymentsWS and paymentsWSPW My App creates an instance of the class, loads some data, runs the method above, and then sets the class to nothing. I'm using .NET 3.5 automating Excel 10
I am developing an application using excel automation.The worst thing is the client's side doesn't have excel installed.What is the solution for this case?
View 17 RepliesI'm trying to upgrade a VB6 app to VB 2008. I have read the article in the tutors corner about automating Excel from VB but I cannot get it to work. Heres what I have done:
1) set a reference to the Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object Library
2) Added "Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel" to the top of the module
3) in a routine I have added: Dim X As New Excel.Application Here's where I get an error: Error 75 'Application' is ambiguous in the namespace 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel'.
I am writing a program that loops through all of the sheets in an Excel workbook and saves each sheet as its own workbook. It turned out to be a bit trickier than I expected, since the Sheet.Copy method creates a strange object (see here for the MSDN discussion that I believe is relevant: [URL]. Anyway, I found a Stack Overflow post [URL] that got me to where I am, which is essentially complete, outside of one hanging EXCEL.EXE process that is left after the program completes, which I believe is a result of the sheet.copy method creating a new workbook (potentially a new application as well?). The other thing I run into, which I believe is related to this, is that even though I have my application set to visibility off, when I run the program, excel still opens up and is visible going through the steps.
Here is my code:
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Imports System.Data
Imports System.IO
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
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Now I think the problem comes from the end of the loop, where I try to close the export file and the new worksheet it creates:
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'close excel and release com objects
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(exportsheet)
exportsheet = Nothing
xlApp1.Workbooks(fileNames(counter - 1)).Close(False)
I can't figure out what to do to release the `ComObject` for the new worksheet that is created. I have been trying all sorts of things, but it always throws a COM error when I do it and if I try to define it as nothing (like I do with exportsheet) is says that it is read only by default, so I can't do it. It seems like it should be something as simple as: System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(xlApp1.Workboo ks(fileNames(counter - 1))) But that is not the case. I have tried a few variants of this and I am thinking it has to do with the MSDN link above, but I can't quite sort out what to do. So the code works for my purposes, outside of leaving one EXCEL.EXE after it is done. As far as a test file, I am just using an Excel file with 3 sheets and I put some information on each and change the sheet name, so it is easy to see if it is working or not.