my program I want to load an excel file that contains the names and scores of a competition, store the values as a public variable, do some calculations on it and then store the values back on the excel file.
View 11 RepliesI am extracting a column with 8760 cells from an excel file to my graph in my vb application. I managed to open and close the excell sheet from my program. However, when I try to run my application I receive this message:
There is a large amount of information on the clipboard do you want to be able to paste this into to another program later?
Is there a way that I can avoid receiving this message when calling the data from the excell file?
I have developed a program that allows drag and drop pictures using the followng [code] this will display the image in the pictruebox and saves the location of the image to a database. at this time i can rename the image in windows using the file.rename() function.now if i exit and come back into the section of the program with the image.i query the database for the image location and use the same type of code aka ploc [code]Now when i try to do a rename of the file i get an error that says access denied. I have even tried changing images, but as long as i am in the program i get access denied.I also can not change or delete these file from windows as long as my application is runningfile.rename() Is there a way to force my program to stop using this picture so i cand rename or delte it?
View 2 RepliesI am writing my data to an Excel file. I have two functions, create excel file and close excel file. When I am creating the first excel file, everything works fine, but creating another one after the first has been closen, I am getting an "NullReferenceException" exception.
Dim xl As New Excel.Application
Dim wkb As Excel.Workbook
Dim wks As Excel.Worksheet
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I am writing a tool that cleans up several files - which is working fineBut I would like to be able to expand it so it can delete files that are in use/locked in temp directories etc
View 4 RepliesI am having issues using interop with office excel in .net. I have tried a lot of things to close the excel application, workbook and worksheets i create to use in my program but i always notice the excel.exe still in memory. I have even tried forcing the garbage collector,
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I work for a financial firm doing vb.net work.I open an excel doc and populate it using calls to range...i however dont dim the range...I call xlsSheet.Range.ValueI have about 30 ranges i update in this method before printingdo i need to set the .Range.Value to Nothing in order to close the excel.exe
View 9 RepliesOkay so my program opens excel, reads a few cells, and closes excel. But, it does not fully close excel and after multiple runs, I have multiple EXCEL.EXE *32 in my process list. It also asks for a save when it's closing when there are no changes being made, is there any way to avoid this? And how do you get Excel to fully close?
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The program closes, without asking for a save, gets me the data I need, but remains in the process list.
Using this for my Imports
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What I wanted to do is close all opened workbooks. This code does the work IF there is at least one or more opened workbooks. My problem is IF there is NO opened workbook at all; It goes around unendlessly in the WHILE Loop. How do I not process the closing IF there is no any opened workbook at all? (NOTE: I found this code from somewhere else.)
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When I run the following code, I get the exception below:
''# NOTE: ExcelApp is a Private main form variable
Dim ReportBooks As Excel.Workbooks = ExcelApp.Workbooks
Dim ReportBook As Excel.Workbook = ReportBooks.Open(localFilename)
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I used the code previously added by Mike Rosenblum but Excel is still not closing, Here is my code:
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Private Sub Check_For_Xcel(ByVal filename As String)
Dim varpath As String = ""
Dim varvalue As String = ""
Dim xlapp As New Excel.Application
Dim xlbook1 As Excel.Workbook = xlapp.Workbooks.Add()
Try
varpath = filename
xlbook1 = GetObject(varpath)
xlbook1.Application.Visible = True
xlbook1.Windows(1).Visible = True
xlbook1.Application.WindowState = Excel.XlWindowState.xlMinimized
For irow = 2 To 65536
For icol = 1 To 4
Select Case icol
Case 1
read_date_time = xlbook1.Worksheets(1).Cells(irow, icol).Value
Case 2
read_plate = xlbook1.Worksheets(1).Cells(irow, icol).Value
Case 3
read_plate_state = xlbook1.Worksheets(1).Cells(irow, icol).Value
Case 4
read_location = xlbook1.Worksheets(1).Cells(irow, icol).Value
End Select
Next
If read_plate = Nothing Then Exit For
Check_IF_Present(read_plate, read_plate_state)
Next
If Not xlapp Is Nothing Then
GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(xlbook1.Worksheets)
xlbook1.Close(SaveChanges:=False)
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(xlbook1)
xlapp.Quit()
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(xlapp)
End If
xlbook1 = Nothing
xlapp = Nothing
GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Error at Check for Xcel")
End Try
End Sub
I am working on a VB.net form, I am trying to connect to Active Directory, with a VB form have the user be able to search for a username and then return if the account is locked or unlock, if the account is locked I want the option to unlock the account based on the credentials of the user that is doing the search.
View 11 RepliesI am using visual studio to create an application that opens an excel file and then for each entry in the first column the entry in the second column is stored in an array. Then excel opens two other workbooks and for each entry in the first column it searches for a match in these other two workbooks and stores the corresponding value in an array.
Anyway, the problem is closing excel afterwards. I have used the thread: [URL] to work through the basics of cleaning up. I used the cleanup code provided and added the WithEvents caveat. I do not have strict option on.
I believe the problem is the fact that I have three workbooks open.
This is my cleanup code: (wrkbk, wrkbk2, wrkbk3 are the workbooks; datasheet, datasheet2, datasheet 3 are the worksheets; excel is the application)
Code:
GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
GC.Collect()
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I got the impression that order was important in the cleanup procedure so I have tried some variations of moving the workbooks and worksheets around.
I may be the only person still automating excel this way and I am looking at doing it in ways that better handle COM objects and such, but for now I just importMicrosoft.Office.Interop.Excel and go for it. Something that gave me a lot of grief at first was hanging excel.exe processes, but there are tons of resources online for fixing that. At this point I am pretty confident in my abilities to handle it.One thing I did notice and was wondering about is how does closing a windows forms application interact with excel.exe running in the background and likely more specifically the garbage collector. I have written quite a few excel automation projects and noticed that after I run my program .exe and it has completed there is an excel.exe process that hangs on until I close the pop up window from the windows forms application. Why is that happening?
View 1 RepliesForm1 is a mdi container. It has a bunch of forms that can load inside of it as mdi children. If I close each open form inside the form1, and then click the red X at the top right, application exits fine.If I click the red X without closing the forms inside I get: An unhandled exception of type 'System.CannotUnloadAppDomainException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Error while unloading appdomain. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131015) However I can break from it. How do I get the application to not show that error? What must I do to fix those inside forms or close when the red x is clicked?
Dim frm As Form
For Each frm In Forms
Set frm = Nothing
Next frm
The above code is what I used in VB6 to close all forms associated with my programs before my program closed. I have been searching for information on how to make sure all forms are closed when closing a VB2008 program.
I have seen info on using the Project Property Shutdown mode When startup form closes and I currently have this set.
Is this all that is really necessary? Will the garbage disposal close everything else to free up RAM?
Also, if I have several forms open and want to close all from the main form without closing each one individually, what is the best approach? Is there a collection like in VB6, go through the collection, compare it to the name of the main form and close it if it is not the main form?
I am utilizing a webbrowser control in vb.net 2005 to display excel workbooks
We are using this control to open excel documents. Webbrowser.ShowSaveAsDialog() allows the user to save the excel workbook open at any location he wants
However, I don't want the user to decide where to save. Is there any way to save an excel document from the webbrowser control without going through the ShowSaveAsDialog?
On closing of webbrowser, a simple prompt to user whether he/she would like to save changes should be fine enough
As of now, I can close webbrowser control and it does not prompt the user to save the changes. Actually, all changes are lost until and unless I perform a save (Ctrl+S) manually
I am using asp.net oledb to export information to excel file. I encounter problems when the information to export becomes too big, in this case the code I have given below, the excel file generated becomes an empty spreadsheet.If I changed the loop to 1123 for insertion of the rows. The generated excel file is fine, 1125 rows, and 4 columns shown.A test program in windows form is also working fine regardless of how many rows.[code]I couldn't find a solution to my problem as well. What I did eventually was to run the process using another separate windows service. The code works perfectly fine running from a windows form or service program, but not asp.net, not sure why.
View 1 RepliesI have this issue that occurs with me and driving me crazy i have a report that contains thousands of records and i need to export it to excel , but the excel normal extension .xls
is showing missing records at the end of the file , so i save my file as an .xlsx extension it saves correctly but when i open the file it generates an error
"Excel cannot open the file '<var>filename</var>.xlsx' because the file format for the file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file."but when i test the file i drag it and open it in an empty notepad all the records shows up correctly
i just found a new error problem on my app.. i have a save button that saves text1. as the file name and text2. as the content.. i recently tried to save this file name on my app: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareC07ft5Y as a file name, and due to the in the file name, it made my app error and close without being able to save my file.. my question is, how to bring a msgbox saying "invalid characters in file name" instead of causing it to error and shut down. (just found out that registry entry is for SafeDisc-enabled products, although, i'm not fully sure..)
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I have the following code to close a form which is a child. The problem is that when it closes, it closes the MDI parent too.
Private Sub frmTransaction_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing
If ListView1.Items.Count >= 1 Then
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i've continued making my Program and wanted to make an Control Panel for my Server.
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Im trying to set up some error catching. So if the process errors out in the middle of reading a text file using a StreamReader, the file stays opened. What is a good way for me to close that file after the error? For example, here's some
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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.
Code:
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)
Code:
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 seem to have a problem in finding a solution to threads.I am opening a .PDF file via an <iframe> using vb.net. Then the file is opened, it is then moved to another location. But for some reason I am unable to move the file because it "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." The only way round it i have found is to kill the process for Adobe Acrobat, so the file is released. Even if i fill the iframe with something else.How would I close the file, and stop that particular file from being accessed before the move ?
View 6 RepliesI am trying to write a code that lets you open a text file and display it in a text box. I need to make it so that when the user tries to close the program it will ask them if they want to save any changes made to it.
View 3 RepliesI have developed an application where some data will be automatically be updated in an Excel File. I need to autmate the application in a way such that there will be no manual user intervention.However once data is updated in the Excel file I get a save dialog prompt asking the user to save the Excel file. I need to know if there is any way to automate this part i.e. automatically save the Excel file and exit the application once data is updated.
View 1 RepliesI'm working through an example in a programming book and stumbling across a problem that I can't seem to figure out. The program in question is basically a very basic 'level viewer' for a tile based bitmap game (its a game creation book). The source code from the author was written for Visual Studio 2005, and I am using 2010. The source code imports fine and the program runs correctly.
I built the same program on my own, starting from scratch in VS2010. The program works like this: It opens a tile set palette (bitmap form), then uses an XML file to create a 'level'. The XML file indicates which tile goes where on the 'level'. The XML file is roughly 1.9MB and has roughly16,000 entries (the program creates a level that is 4096 x 4096 pixels using 32 x 32 pixel tiles).
Running and closing the program from source code runs exactly as expected. Running the program from my version runs exactly as expected. Closing it does not. It basically hangs up for about 2 minutes on close. (for reference every loads in about 3 seconds). I've determined that it is the XML file that is causing the problem by excluding the portion where it loads the XML. In that case it closes fine. If I cut it down to just a few records, my program closes fine as well. So it seems like the program is having trouble dumping the XML document at close.
I've tried to track down any differences between the source code and my code, and the only thing that I have found is that the References in mine are all using .NET version 4.0 and the references in the source are using mostly 2.0 and some 3.5 (System.Data.DataSetExtensions, System.XML.Ling.dll, and System.Core.dll)
The code for the entire form is:
Imports System.Xml
Public Class Form1
Public Structure tilemapStruct
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I have no problem loading the contents of a text file into a richtextbox(rtb) with the below code. I can then edit and save the contents of the rtb to the file, and clear the rtb.
However, is the file still open? Does loading a text file into the rtb actually open that file? I am asking because I can't find any methods or techniques to close a file that has been loaded into a rtb. Is clearing the rtb the correct procedure?
Public Class Form1
Dim openFile1 As New OpenFileDialog()
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click
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I'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'.