Save An Excel File Programmatically?
Oct 9, 2008
I'm trying to import data from an Excel file into SQL server. However, the Excel file's format is not recognized by SQL Server. In fact, when I open it and try to save it, I get the following message:<filename> cannot be saved in the current format. To save your changes, click OK, then save it as the latest format.When I do that manually, it puts it in a usable format. However, the automated process I'm trying to build can't save it without intervention. When the VB in my SSIS process gets to it it brings up a save window, and I have to click the "Save" button and then the "Yes" button to replace the existing file. I'd strongly prefer to have this automated. I've have tried using the SendKeys.Send("{ENTER}") code, but it brings up this message:SendKeys cannot run inside this application because the application is not handling Windows messages. Either change the application to handle messages, or use the SendKeys.SendWait method.I've tried SendWait, but it just seems to hang. I don't know how to change the application to handle error messages. I have also tried saving the Excel file as a new file with my VB code. However, as a new xls, xlsx, and csv file it still wasn't recognized by the import. I've only had success when manually saving it. In the SaveAs code I have been using, I'm only using the FileName parameter. I can't get any FileFormats to work or be recognized. Note, though, I'm opening the app and worksheet as Object variables. I can't add the Excel component in the Add Refrence area because only the .NET tab is there. I don't have a COM tab. I haven't asked if/how to get access to it, though.
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Feb 2, 2012
Whats the easiest way to change a sheet name of a newly create .xls file using VB.net.
The .xls is created as follows in a directory location:
filename = strDirectoryName & "1-TestFeedFile-" & strToday & "-" & iFile.ToString() & "of" & totalFile.ToString() & ".xls"
outputWriter = File.CreateText(filename)
The header of the xls file is created as follows:
line = "Blah1" & Chr(9) & "Blah2" & Chr(9) & "Blah3" & Chr(9)
outputWriter.WriteLine(line)
This code was orginally written to create a .txt file but was changed to a create a .xls, in that case I'm wondering if i'll have to change the code to create an new excel object which then can be used and access its sheet property?I don't mind if the solution is in VB.net or C#
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Mar 10, 2011
How do you save an html table built programmatically in a .html file?
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Nov 26, 2010
I have an Excel file that downloads automatically, but for some reason the binary XLS file contains some garbage HTML text at the end of it.
When opening the file in the Excel application, it shows a warning but proceeding will automatically remove the garbage HTML text.
However, I need to open the file programmatically. When doing so via
Dim wb As Workbook = Excel.Workbooks.Open(ExcelFileName)
It throws:
Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC
a) Get Excel to perform a similar action as if I manually opened it and remove the garbage HTML automatically. NOTE: Tried setting the XlCorruptLoad.xlRepairFile parameter and it didn't work.
OR
b) Remove the garbage text from the XLS binary file (FileStream?) and resave it before attempting to open the file with the code mentioned above.
The garbage html always comes at the very end of the file and starts with
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Jan 28, 2010
i'm trying to save an excel file after I open my excel application. This is what I have so far:
'Opens the report
xlPeakDemand.Visible = True
xlPeakDemandWorkbook.SaveAs("C:Documents and
[Code].....
When saving as an xls it works fine but when saving as a htm its a disaster Just a bunch or symbols and stuff. BUT if I go into my xls document and Save As webpage from there, it works fine!
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Jan 26, 2009
I'm working with vb.net 2008. My application generates 1 excel file (with login details etc). The application will store user results for various sections into csv files. I'm trying to combine the csv files into the excel file. I'm trying to get this to work with one csv file initially ...but I am ending up with a blank Excel file. This is what I've tried so far:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim oExcel As Object
[code].....
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Jan 26, 2012
I'm working with vb.net 2008. My application generates 1 excel file (with login details etc). The application will store user results for various sections into csv files. I'm trying to combine the csv files into the excel file. I'm trying to get this to work with one csv file initially ...but I am ending up with a blank Excel file. This is what I've tried so far:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim oExcel As Object
[code].....
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Oct 26, 2011
I need to create a dotNet saveAs dialog, but I need to populate the file formats in the dialog. After the person have selected a file, it must connect that to a file format that I populate into the SaveAs command in the Excel Interop. After the Interop SaveAs command, I must check if the file have been saved correctly.
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Dec 29, 2009
I am trying to open an excel CSV file and overwrite some data, close then use that file in my program. Everything go is fine except when I read the data from the file, the file seems to be corrupted! [code]...
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Jul 22, 2011
I have a program where I put data into a list view in VB.net. I then use the code below in a button click to export the content into a excel file where I can then save it. however I plan to add alot more data to the list view ad would like to auto save the data in the list view to an excel file (where it saves it to disk not an open excel window) and then clears the list view then will repopulate the list view and repet the loop of saving the data to a new excel file on disk.[code]...
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Apr 20, 2010
I have a database file that excel reads just fine but i can't figure out what type of file it is. So i figure the easiest thing to do is open the file in vb.net via an excel object, then execute the save as i have seen 1000 examples but even after i think i add a reference vb still has no idea what "excel." is.[code]
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Apr 16, 2012
I need to save array into excel file. I'm using code taken from [URL]
Dim oExcel As Object
Dim oBook As Object
Dim oSheet As Object
[Code]....
But i want to let users to choose folder and filename themselves instead of determining location and filename like in those code above oBook.SaveAs(sSampleFolder & "Book2.xls") I wonder if i can use SaveFileDialog but i dont know how to do it. Or is there any other way to do this?
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Apr 7, 2010
In order to save data into excel file in my application, I need to define
Dim excelApp As New Excel.Application
but I got error message: "Type Excel.Application" is not defined. What component I might miss?
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Dec 15, 2011
I cant able to save an excel file from VB.NET.
I used the code below:
SaveFileDialog1.Title = "Save Excel File"
SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "Excel files (*.xls)|*.xls|Excel Files (*.xlsx)|*.xslx"
SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
[Code]....
Error occurred in the highlighted line as "Exception from HRESULT: 0x800401A8". I cannot analyse the cause for this error. because in before case it works fine for the same code i used.
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Dec 11, 2009
I am opening an excel workbook, saving it under a new name, then run a macro on it from personal.xls, then resaving it over this new file.
Then I try to immediately resave again asa third name and it fails
Here is the code:
' Start Excel and get Application object.
oXL = CreateObject(
"Excel.Application")
oXL.Visible =
[Code].....
"The file could not be accessed. Try one of the following: - Make sure the specified folder exists. - Make sure the folder that contains the file is not read-only. - Make sure the file name does not contain any of the following characters: < > ? [ ] : | or * - Make sure the file/path name doesn't contain more than 218 characters."
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Jul 24, 2009
I am using visual basic express edition 2008 and office 2007. I am trying to write some data an excel file.[code]...
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Oct 13, 2011
I want to open a excel template with a browse button, the file needs to open and must be directly saved by the user. after the file is saved the file location needs to be displayed in a textbox.With this i can open excel itself, but i don't know how to open the template and save the document
Dim Xl As Excel.Application
Dim Filepath As String
Dim Workbook As Excel.Workbook
[code]....
The file opens and i get a save as dialog, but when i want to save the document it doesn;t save at all, However it won't give me a error.
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Oct 28, 2011
I want to save an excel file with the following prefix: Order-Monday for Mondays, Order-Tuesday for Tuesdays etc and then this file will be overwritten the next week. For the following bit of vb
lstrDateStamp = Now().DayOfWeek
xlWorkSheet.SaveAs(gstrFilePathS14 & gstrFileNameS14 & "-" & lstrDateStamp & gstrFileTypeS14)
the Now().DayOfWeek returns '5' apart from doing a case expression to decipher 1-7 as days of the week is there any other way I can get lstrDateStamp = DAY (i.e. Friday)
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Nov 22, 2011
[code]the bold part must be changed cause everytime i open the saved file, word success is the data in there.
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Mar 1, 2009
I'm developing a small application that creates Excel files with user details. I'm developing this in vb.net 2008 express edition under Windows XP SP2 and with Office 2003.My target PC is running Windows Vista. I'm able to run my program without any problem and even the Excel files get created without any problem on this PC.However, the problem is when I try to open one of these created files in Vista, I get a message like below:
"The file you are trying to open, "TestMe.xls", is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?" If I click yes, it opens up properly. This is a headache as it opens up in my developing PC without any hassle. I'm sure its something to do with the Excel reference I've made in my PC (which is running Office 2003).How best can I save this file so it opens up in Excel 2007 without the above message.
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Jun 22, 2010
Importing an excel file?first the program should be able to browse for an excel file and then,the values in an excel file will be imported to the datagrid and save all the data in the database.
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Mar 20, 2007
I have ran into an issue where I need to save some Excel data to a semicolon delimited file. (Why is an issue unto itself) And I can not find a way to do this using VB. In excel I can use Import Semicolon delimited files but I can not find a way to save them. Is there a VB constant or method I can use to save semicolon delimited files without having to write my own save procedure to format the data? such as the xlCSV, xlDIF, xlTextMSDos formats. I would think that since it can import this format that it should be able to save it.
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Nov 24, 2011
i already know how to save in excel using openfiledialog. but what i want to happen is that when i save another file, i want it to be saved in my existing file but in a different sheet.[code]
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Nov 28, 2011
how to save in excel using openfiledialog. but what i want to happen is that when i save another file, i want it to be saved in my existing file but in a different sheet.
this is my code for saving
Public Sub saveExcelFile(ByVal FileName As String)
Dim xls As New Excel.Application
Dim sheet As Excel.Worksheet
[Code]......
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May 27, 2008
Here are some important facts:
This code works (no Error 1004 on numerous laptops and desktops) A couple of months ago it began to fail (Error 1004 reared it's ugly head) on a couple of machines. The users claim that nothing changed - I can neither confirm nor deny accuracy of these claims. All users, except one, are running Windows XP and Office 2003. The problem also surfaced on a new machine running Windows XP and Office 2007. I could not force the error on my development/test machine - Windows XP with Offic 2003. It fails every time on another machine I have running Vista with Office 2007
The following is the code that causes me the problem. I know the error is raised on the WB.Save statement. I added the error trap to eliminate the problem of the Excel file being unaccessable without a reboot, due to the fact that Windows thought Excel still had it open.
Public Sub ExportCostAnalysis(ByVal RunMode As String)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
As dao.Recordset
[CODE]...
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Nov 15, 2011
My query is i want to save record from an excel sheet to my Database Table.
But i dont want to insert the Excel sheet as a whole rather i want to insert the record in my database table Row wise.Inserting the records is not the only thing but my major issue is i want to check and compare the Primary Key column of my Table with the Column in my Excel.
Suppose Table1 is my Sql Database Table,and RegistrationNo is the Primary Key Column.Similarly there is also a column of Registration Number in my Excel Sheet.
Now before inserting each record the RegistrationNo column should be compared.If the a registrationNo in the excel sheet say RegistrationNo 112 is already present in the table then it should not Insert the record and if its not present then it should insert.
Also the other issue is the number of columns in my Database table are more than the number of columns in my excel Sheet.So the columns that are not present in the excel sheet should be set to NULL while inserting the record in the Table.
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Oct 29, 2008
My company is making thousands of products now, every one of them have several test report in excel files. I am thinking about putting all of them into a microsoft sql database,
1. Is it wise to do so? I think a sql database is a lot easier to manage.
2. Can I save or convert the excel file as one data in a table? How could I do it? I only see a image type for data type. Surely I expect to retrieve the excel file through ASP.Net website if necessary.oh, some additional info, every excel file is not big, but it contains pictures inside sometimes.
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Feb 10, 2009
I'm trying to save an excel file:
vb.net
xlWBook.SaveAs("J:DOWNLOADS.xls")
xlWBook.Close()
xlApp.Quit()
If the file already exists excel will open an message box and ask if you want to overwrite. If I click yes, it works. If I click no or cancel, I get an error:
Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC
How can I tell what button the user clicked?
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Aug 22, 2011
I have this code that I got that exports data grid view in excel but I want to use save file dialog in saving the excel file. [code]...
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May 14, 2012
I�m using VB.Net 2008 application program.I�m using DataGridView. I have a Print Preview option where i need to print the DataGridView.
Quote:
Using "DataGridView1.Rows.Add" i�m adding rows to datagridview.
I�m using this code for Print Preview.
Dim MyDataGridViewPrinter As DataGridViewPrinter
Private Function SetupThePrinting() As Boolean
Dim MyPrintDialog As PrintDialog = New PrintDialog()
[code]....
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