Is there a way to open an CSV file in excel completely as text so my leading zero's don't fall away.
It needs to be done in vb.net and it neets to be opened in excel 2007 or later.
Converting an object .tostring() removes the leading zeros. The object is not a fixed length, so I can't do object.tostring("0000000") where the number of zeros represents the fixed length.
An example object value is "0357" when I convert that object .tostring it becomes "357".
Is there a method for keeping the leading zeros where the length is not known?
I am writing out a CSV file in a VB.NET Windows Application. It is a string, like this:99,Company,00666,TBDOn another form, the user can browse to this file and open it.When he does, I use the Microsoft Jet OleDB provider and read this file into a datagridview. It displays the four columns in the grid, but it truncates the two leading zeroes on 00666 and displays 666.I need those leading zeroes. I tried writing out the string like this:99,Company,'00666,TBD(notice the leading single quote before 00666, like you would type in an Excel cell to indicate it was text), but then when the four columns are displayed in the grid, I have the single quote and the two leading zeroes. I don't want the single quote, I just thought I could use it to indicate text.So my question is how can I write out a string of leading zeroes and have them read into the grid preserved?
View 10 RepliesI am exporting data from vb.net to excel and it is dropping the leading zero when its displayed on excel. How can I avoid the dropping of leading zero? I read the solution of adding a single quote but it makes my excel sheet column ugly. Also users will complain if they see a single quote on zip code field.vb.net code
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", attachment)
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"
Response.Charset = ""
the stored procedure outputs XML and it is transformed by XSLT before it is displayed on EXCEL
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
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adding a single quote or manipulating excel sheet with column formatter (general/numbers ) etc. I don't want user to make any changes on excel to get the display properly when the excel is displayed from web page it should be all set with proper formatting. also we have no control over client excel software?
I have an asp:table which I want to exported to excel. One of my fields are alpha numeric and when exported to excel the leading 0s are stripped off. After going through this thread: Validation (CSS 2.0): 'mso-number-format' is not a known CSS property name I would like to use the css method "mso-number-format:@;.But the css is not exported to excel. I just tried to test it with simpler css things like bold font etc but its not getting carried over. I can see that if I surround my asp:Label with tags this change gets carried over to the excel but not the css bold . Other solutions in other thread does not work for me as ="00111" shows up as desired in excel but in the web form it shows up as ="00111" which is not what i want.
View 2 RepliesI'm not sure whether this is that right place to post this, please could you advise me of where to post it if not.I have the following code in Excel 2007 VBA querying a SQL 2005 database (saves to an Excel 2003 file in the end, hence the APP):[code]This imports the required data fine, but doesn't keep the datetime formatting that is in the SQL database. If I do the same connection manually using any of the 'Data - From Other Sources' connections it keeps the datetime.I know I can format the sheet after importing the data, however there are about 50 columns on 7 sheets, all of the dates are in different places in the sheets and there are descriptive flags which I don't want to be converted to dates, so I can't just convert the whole sheet.I also am aware that if I convert the datetime to an nvarchar(10) it does keep the date in Excel, but not as datetime, just a general format.So, am I missing a simple QueryTable option that would do this for me automatically?
View 2 RepliesI am losing my leading zero in the minutes below. I thought having the "mm" would place two digits for the time.
DateTime.Now.ToString("mm")
Currently i working on a project which needs an excel file to be opened at the rum time in Vb.net 2008.i tried to call the same using richtextbox, it shows the file but the content is not readable.
View 1 RepliesI'm using Vb.net 2008 This code will open specific Excel file from specific location(C: a1.xlsx) and print data to it. Is it possible to open this file from any location(as when we use Process.Start("ta1.xlsx") )on Pc and complete the process of code( print datat)
vb
Dim exl As New Excel.Application
Dim exlWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet
exl.Visible = True
[code]....
I'm trying to open an excel file and then move around a little bit in the excel from VB 2008 and I having some problems. I'm trying next:
dim objExcel as excel.application
objExce = new excel.application
objExcel.visible=true
[code]......
I got the following code snippet, but it shows errors in 3 places, the error is type "item name" not defined. I underlined and made bold where the errors show up below'Firstly retrieve data from Access database
Dim con As OleDb.OleDbConnection = New OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=E:myDB.mdb")
con.Open()
[Code]....
I'm using VB Express 2008 and I would like to open an excel file and save it with different name file. For example, I would like to open a file in
C: est.xls
And then I want to save them with different file name such as
C: ry.xls
I am working on an excel add-in. Currently I have a couple of forms that grabs info from excel, processes and pastes data back into excel.My problem occurs after my form closes (this leaves excel and one other MDI form still open). I need my excel sheet to come to the front for users to view and edit. My MDI form just stays on top even though I just edited the excel doc. I have tried everything I can think of using:
.visible
.activesheet etc.
Here is my latest:
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I would like to open the excel file after create the excel file. The creating file function is done, but the system unable to open the excel file. My coding as below:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim misValue As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
[code]....
I'm trying to export a datagridview to Excel and open the Excel spreadsheet (not SAVE the worksheet).
Public Sub ExcelRpt(ByVal DgvName As GridView, ByVal url As String)
Dim xlApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook
Dim xlWorkSheet As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet
[code]....
I have a VB.Net App that on ButtonRun_Click open Excel to get the "tab" and "column" then another buton that past content from textboxes. I get a "COMException was Unhandled" If I reopen excel it's in use.
Private Sub ButtonRun_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonRun.Click
Dim MyExcel As New Excel.Application
[Code]....
I have an application the contains several excel files bundled with it. I'm not opening the files and processing them within my application. These files contain a data-connection to reload all of the pivot-tables within each excel file. I have a 'link' on my form, that when clicked, it determines which file to open and calls a sub using filename and executing Process.Start(filename) for any excel file I want to open. I have no problems opening any one of the files and then exiting excel.
The problem is when I 'close' a file, but don't exit Excel; then try to open another file(clicking link on form)... it creates a new instance of Excel.
I know from experimenting that the fileopendialog form will 'reuse' an existing Excel instance, IF it does not already have a file open.
How can I do the same thing without using the fileopendialog?
I don't want the end-user to have access to the folders where these files live. That's why I have multiple 'links' on my form, one for each xls that already exists. I just want them to be able to click on a link and the xls file opens AND if they choose to merely 'close' a file and not exit... Don't create a new instance of Excel, but re-use the existing one.
I took oledbconnection with excel file, after disposing this connection i m still unable to open that excel manually,It shows some access error.
View 1 RepliesI can do this using VBA, but I want to be able to create the code using a compiled VB programme, which can then be opened in Excel.
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
How can I get a leading zero on my date.
I pick the date from a calendar and it returns the result #4/2/2009#
I would like #04/02/2009#
I've tried to use the Format commant but it just shows up "dd" as the value
Using VB to open a .csv file with "excel.workbooks.open", editing it, then saving as .csv.
Even though it is saved as .csv, it is still identified as .xls.
Is there an alternate way to open this .csv file so that when it is saved as .csv the excel application actually identifies it as a comma delimited, not a spreadsheet?
i have a problem with a chat application in vb.net the problem is occuring when i loading data from a XML file , my form is not responding.
View 1 RepliesI have tried just about every format I have found, and I can not seem to get the string digits 0-9 to show up as "00 - 09". Now I do not want numbers 10+ to show up as 010, 011, etc. I also know there are (2) ways to format strings as well:Microsoft.VisualBasic.FormatandString.FormatI have tried all of the following with no[code]...
View 2 RepliesI have got my timer ticking but I need to add the leading zero back in but it code I am using only works on the seconds (label3) not on the minutes (label4)!
Timer
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Label3.Text -= 1
If Label3.Text = "00" Then
Label4.Text -= 1
[Code] .....
I have a masked textbox formatted as "##:##:##:##". When I send the variables to it if the number is <10 I don't get the leading zero displayed. For example:[code[What I want it to look like is 00:01:02:03, what I get is 00:12:3. I've tried the variables as an integer and a string with no luck.
View 2 Repliesi was wondering if there was something i can use in VB which will let me have some fields in the DGV query to automatically have the format of 0.0000? There are some fields in that query which require this format. The Crystal Reports that accesses it gives incorrect info without this format type.
View 6 RepliesI am trying to format a date from a table that I'm getting so that I can concatenate it with another string.But I want the leading zero - I don't want 1/1/2009 - I want 01/01/2009.
I can't seem to find a formatting pattern that does this.
I need to format an entire column via Visual basic .net for VBA excel spreadsheets. I need to format the column to the following custom size ("00000").
I am using the following to select the range: ws.Range("AC:AD").Select()
Not sure how to specify the format though..
In my app. I am using this code block to extract numbers from a string in a TextBox.
Dim getNumbers
As String =
""
[Code]....
How can I get the leading zeros (if there is eny) removed from the number tha has been extracted?.
