The following code works fine but seems to leave instances of excel.exe running in the background. How do I go about closing out this sub properly?
Private Sub ReadExcel(ByVal childform As Fone_Builder_Delux.frmData, ByVal FileName As String)
' In progress
childform.sampleloaded = False
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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:
Code:
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:
Code:
'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.
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 another Stack Overflow post 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 (check the update for one more issue that came up, but I think they are related).
Here is my code:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.IO
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
Imports Office = Microsoft.Office.Core
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Final Update: On the off chance that some poor soul ran into the same issue I was running into, the first update should solve it, but it is also important to note that the excel.exe will hang until you close the application. I am report automation code as a windows form application (so coworkers can give the file location and such) and there is going to be an excel.exe process running until you close the pop up window from the program. Maybe garbage collect does not run until you close the application window or it just hangs on to an instance of excel.exe for some other reason.
I need to access the current instance of MS Excel. To do that, I wrote the following code:
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Imports System.Diagnostics
Private _ExcelApp As Excel.Application
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The code runs nice, but it has a problem: After the user close the Excel application (click button X - note: no other instance of Excel exists), if you open the Windows's task manager, its possible to see the process Excel.exe.
If I open and close the Excel application, there is no process Excel.exe, but if I run my code with the Excel application openned, after the user close the Excel application, the process Excel.exe isn't finished.
I am trying to write code for a login to my program. But the code I have written freeze's the screen. Basicaly I want to check if username (TextBox1) has text in it and then check if password (Textbox2) has text in it. if either textbox has no text then a MsgBox show's with an OK Button. and then I dont want the program to run. I want The login form to reload so the user can insert thier username & password. the code I have is below.
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I'm trying to copy multiple excel source files into one excel file. My current code is working only for 3 source files..If more than 3 files are there, it doesn't copy the data but creates blank work sheet in the output excel file. Lets say I have a source folder with 5 excel files. Each workbook contains one worksheet with data. It copies upto 3 worksheets along with data into output excel file.
Lets say excel1 contains A as work sheet, excel2 contains B as work sheet ,excel3 contains C as work sheet ,excel4 contains D as work sheet ,excel5 contains E as work sheet .Now my output excel file should look like..OutputExcel with A, B, C, D, E along with respective data.But my current code is giving output as A,B,C worksheets along with respective data but its creating blank sheet1,sheet2 in place of D & E.
SSIS Script Task Vb.Net Code:
Public
Sub Main()
Dim filePath
As
String =
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I'm writing a VB.NET program (VS 2005) that reads data from an XML document and writes it into a column in an excel spreadsheet. It's working fine, except for the following: after the first run, all the data appears as expected - for example
COLUMN
a
b
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I'm tryng to read an excel sheet that has more than 255 cell. I'm using the following code:
Dim MyConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection
Dim MyDataSet As New System.Data.DataSet
Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("PCOConnectionString2").ConnectionString
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this code throws me an error that indicates me that there are too many rows to read. I found, seaching through forums, that it can't be more that 255 cells on the sheet i'm reading.
How can i read this sheet that has over 500 cells?
I'm trying to read data from the .xlsx files using SharpZipLib to unpack it (in memory) and reading the inner xml files. Everything is fine but recognizing the dates - they're stored in julean format and I need to somehow recognize if a number is a date or only a number. In another topic (unfortunately it died and I need quick answer) I got to know some things from Mark Baker, but it's still not enough...
"Excel stores dates as a float value... the integer part being the number of days since 1/1/1900 (or 1/1/1904 depending on which calendar is being used), the fractional part being the proportion of a day (ie the time part)... made slightly more awkward by the fact that 1900 is considered a leap year.
The only thing that differentiates a data from a number is the number format mask. If you can read the format mask, you can use that to identify the value as a date rather than a number... then calculate the date value/formatting from the base date." "But doesn't the attribute "s" for dates has always the value of "1"? I know it defines style?
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[URL]..a good way to create Excel files without using Ms Excel,but this is C# source code,I used [URL]..to convert from C# to VB.NET,but after conversion There are some strange errors :
Error21Too many characters in character literalc:BBBXLSExportDemoXLSExportDemoExcelDocument.vb1625XLSExportDemo
Error22Empty character literalc:BBBXLSExportDemoXLSExportDemoExcelDocument.vb1633XLSExportDemo
I have a VB.NET app which pulls some data out of an Excel file and puts it into XML.Originally, I read from the Excel file using an OleDB connection but then when we deployed the app to the test server, it gave an error saying that some Jet database components needed to be registered on the server to read from Excel and we're not allowed to register those on the server.Then, I rewrote it using the Microsoft.Office.Interop Excel components. Apparently, however, that needs to have Excel registered on the server in order to work and we can't install that either.Is there another way to read data from Excel using VB.NET which doesn't require anything but the .NET Framework on the server the app is running from? It's just a few simple rows of data with no formulas or macros or anything and I just want to grab the data out. It seems to me that this shouldn't be all that complex.
View 13 Repliesi m trying to get excel sheet-name of a excel file from vb.net 3.5 however it opens but excel.exe still remains in the process. How do i stop the process without killing the excel.exe from task manager?i realise new excel.application starts new process.i tried to use quit, close and dispose.....nothing worked
Below is my code
Dim sheetName As New Excel.XlSheetType
Dim newExcell As New Excel.Application
Dim newWorkBook As Excel.Workbook = app.Workbooks.Open(MyFileName)
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I cannot use kill because there are other excel application running, so how do i close this particular excel.exe from processor.
I am trying to build an app that can search column A in an excel document (with textbox control). In column B, I have info about the column A items. When a column A item is searched, I would like a textbox (or similar) to display info about it from column B.
I have never done any Excel related programming, so I don't know what to do, or where to start.
When I create an instance of an Excel Application class and then quit the app and release the object (like below) the EXCEL process is still running in the the task manager. I have built an algorithm to find the process id and kill the process through that but I shouldn't have to.
xlApp = New Excel.ApplicationClass
'do stuff with excel app class instance
xlApp.Quit()
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I'm trying to read an Excel xls file into a dataset with OLE. I can do that, but it's loosing data. The sheet is formatted with merged cells on the first 11 rows and after that it's just a table. I need to read this with OLE, because the server on which this web-application is working does not have Excel installed.
If I remove the first 11 rows with excel, then save it and then let my program read it, all is fine, but with those rows, it's ok. The excel sheet has header names in row 12. After the read in to the dataset, some of those cells with the header names are empty. I assume this is caused by the formatting. Is there any other way to open and read an excel file on a server without Excel or expensive dll's? Is it possible to open the xls file with OLE, delete the first 11 rows before using da.fill(dataset,tablename)?
i have this code that i am using to read from an excel spreadsheet but it i giving me an error saying that i am not not giving the exact name of the table.i have uploaded the excel spreadsheet as well. [code]
View 5 RepliesI have a .csv file (created by external program). In my vb.net application I want to read the last cell value. External program updates the last cell value every 3 sec.For this I use the below code. But cpu usage increases (because timer event opens&closes new excel sheet every second)I was successfully doing this with vb6 without any problem, but with vb.net I'm stuck.
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I'm calling the following method from a button click event to export a datatable to excel. After the export is completed, the excel application object is quit, released and assigned to nothing. But in reality it's not getting released and stays active unless the entire application is closed. So every time the button is clicked for export, a new excel application object keeps on running. How can I solve this?
The problem doesn't occur if two of the lines from the method below are not used. But I can't omit them as they are really needed. Check the * marked lines.
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I created the class below to open and gather the names of worksheets in an excel file. It does as it should in opening the file and returning the names of the each individual worksheet. Unfortunatly, I'm unable to close the file. This keeps the Excel.exe process hanging. Even after I attempt to close it at the bottom of this class the process still hangs. I have to manually goto Windows Task Manager and kill the process before I can use the file again. Even if I exit out of the application it still is out there.
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There to all gurus,I'm trying to build an Excel generation aplication using VS 2008 and Microsoft Excel 2003, but some how the Excel process that i create it's stuck in the computers memory, and it's only removed when I END the VB Application.
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I'm calling the following method from a button click event to export a datatable to excel. After the export is completed, the excel application object is quit, released and assigned to nothing. But in reality it's not getting released and stays active unless the entire application is closed. So every time the button is clicked for export, a new excel application object keeps on running.The problem doesn't occur if two of the lines from the method below are not used. But I can't omit them as they are really needed. Check the * marked lines.[code]
View 4 RepliesI have written Code for Excel File Create via ASP.Net with VB Code, I want Kill the process Explictly..I already used GC.Collect(), But it takes more time.
View 4 RepliesI am deploying the batch process on a production server and need to have the excel libraries loaded. The process runs at 6am and creates an excel spreadsheet that is ftp'd elsewhere. Anyhow - I cannot seem to find a way to load the libraries I need without loading Office on the production server which for obvious reasons we do not want to do. So how do I deploy this application?
View 1 RepliesI am currently building a vb windows form application (.net 3.5 framework). For the next part of the application I want to be able to use an existing excel process which will have been checked out from sharepoint and manipulate the worksheet with my app.
View 1 RepliesI would like to learn, to view the excel file from our vb.net. When I try to display the Excel file through the process, suppose if there is no process for excell.exe, [means not opened any excel file or excel.exe is not running in task manager] then that file can be viewable smoothly from following code.
But supoose previously any excel file is opened means, then its giving error like "Object reference Not set to an instance, use New Key word....." Also when i try to kill the process for excel.exe, it will kill the other opened excel files also.
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I'm using VB to create Excel templates and everything appeared to be working fine until I was stepping though some code today with my Task Manager open. I noticed that I had numerous instances of Excel open that should not be. This is the code that is being called to close the process:
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When stepping through this code I am hitting the exception after the execution of the GC but the message box does not appear so the the using thinks that everything is fine. When I close my applicataion all of the Excel processes shown by the Task Manager close as well.
I'm trying to kill excel process opened by my tool.I found following working
Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Int32
Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PostMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Int32, ByVal wMsg As Int32, ByVal wParam As Int32, ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32
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Anyway I would like to close ONLY EXCEL process opened by my tool and I don't want close other EXCEL files opened before tool.
which are the control used to display word files and excel sheets inside vb.net forms ? (i have already added reference lib.)
Platform: Vb.net (framework : 3.5)
language : visual basic
I am trying to import a bunch of excel 2003 files all with A:H columns and they are under the same headings etc. into a table in access 2003 database. This is a module in access im making. Im using a file search to look for every file that begins with Format (which they all do ) to get at all the files in the folder path. is there a more efficient way to do this? somehow select all files in a folder? and import each to the same table in access? The DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet seeems to take each file path individually so I'm not sure how to get each file name in the folder to import it.
I have this at the moment:
Sub Import()
Dim db As Database
Set db = CurrentDb
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I am reading in data from an excel file that is only viewed inside the program. This excel file is being populated by data from multiple PLCs (7) through DDE links via RS Linx Gateway. I would like this data to be written to two different excel files and specific sheets within those so that it can be viewed later on.
My program has a form that will allow the user to view the data live, meaning they look at the first excel file from the program so that they are not able to edit the DDE links or change the file in any way. The other excel files (there will be two, one for good parts, one for bad parts) have specific sheets for each part and each tester station. For example, if the part is a ABC part, and it is a good part, and it was tester on tester station 1 then it needs to be saved to the good parts excel file, in the ABC sheet and in the good tester station 1 sheet.
If part XYZ comes along and is a bad part (fails testing) then it needs to be saved to the bad parts file, the XYZ sheet and the bad tester station 1 sheet.I might have added more detail than is needed to solve the problem but I thought I would add it anyways to help you all understand my problem a little better.