Excel - Open A File In An Active Workbook?
Aug 19, 2010
I have a program that filters data and then outputs it to a tabg delimited file. I then use Excel Interop to open this file in Excel because directly outputting to a worksheet takes too long. So currently I am using this code:
AD.DF.WriteToFile(vbTab)
Dim WB As Workbook = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open(AD.DF.DatafileInfo.WriteToFileLocation)
ExcelApp.Visible = True
The first line takes the filtered data and outputs to a tab delimited file. The second opens that same file in a new workbook in Excel. And obviously the third makes Excel visible. Here is my problem though: right now when this code is run there are two open workbooks. I already have an active workbook and I would just like to open this file to that workbook.
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Aug 8, 2010
I am finally switching from VB6 to VB Net and am rewriting a technical application that calculates the heat transfer performance of automotive radiators, heater cores, evaporators, condensers, etc.The user can calculate a heat exchanger and save the results to an Excel spreadsheet. After a series of calculations he can then plot curves of performance.
He can also click on a previous calculation in Excel and import it into the VB routine. The user may have a number of workbooks open when he does this.My problem is I need to open the Excel workbook that is the active workbook. I have been able to select the active worksheet but have been forced to specify the index of the workbook. I have not been able to get the workbook I want.. The code I used is the following,
Dim oExcel As Object = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
Dim oBook As Object = oExcel.Workbooks(1)
Dim oSheet As Object = oBook.activesheet
How do I get the active workbook instead of Workbooks(1) with an index of 1?
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Jun 15, 2011
I am working with an application, which stores and manipulates data in Excel. have successfully imported the necessary Excel libraries viaImports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
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Mar 4, 2012
I think I am trying to do something simple. I am using this command:[URL]..Sometimes VB gets hung up opening the website. If this is the case, I want it to quit trying and move on to the next line of code.
For example, try to open the website in excel for 45 seconds. If still not open, skip and move to next line of code.
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Feb 10, 2012
I have the following function to read an excel spreadsheet and read a certain cell for a value and then I put it into my own List(of T). Everything works fine. However the one quirk I am running into is that as the "oExcel.Workbooks.Open(ExcelFileName)" executes, it does a "Windows Beep" sound.
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Dec 5, 2009
I have successfully created a new excel with the code
[xlApp = New Excel.ApplicationClass]
and can transfer and manipulate data from my VB2008 form back and forth with the spreadsheet One time only each time I try and add additional data it wants to open a new workbook with the same name but cant seem to get it to just add the additional info.
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Jul 19, 2010
I am trying to transfer data from a VB form to an existing Excel 2003 file. This is the code I am using, but it is throwing up the following error:I have coded in VBA but am new to VB.NET and am struggling with setting up the objects
Dim oXL As Excel.Application
Dim oWB As Excel.Workbook
Dim oSheet As Excel.Worksheet
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May 30, 2009
I have questions on this [FAQ's: OD] How do I open an existing Excel Workbook? I have playing around with the code little. Trying to mod the code to display the selected path and File name in the textbox I have on a form. I can to get it to work right
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Sep 29, 2009
I'm writing a VB.NET WEB application and I'm fairly new at it. What I want to do is open Excel workbooks on the client workstation so the user can "Save As" or print or basically do whatever they want with it past that point. I've done this in a windows application using System.Diagnostics but all the information I've read so far doesn't seem to work. I can open .txt and .xls files using this approach:[code]but it opens in the browser, which is not what I want. Do I need to mix Javascript with the HTML and the VB code?
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Dec 4, 2009
here is a copy of my current code. Am trying to open an existing Excel spreadsheet then retrieve the old balance data refigure the new balance and store new data into the spreadsheet. Am I on the right tracK, or way out in left field?
Private
oWB.SaveAs(
"Checkbook.xlsx") Nothing
oWB.Close()
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Aug 3, 2009
I use the following code snippet
Dim exlapp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook_new As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook
Dim strOriginal As String
strOriginal = Server.MapPath(Request.ApplicationPath & "/Attachments/") & "abc.xls"
xlWorkBook_new = exlapp.Workbooks.Open(strOriginal)
The code hangs in the last line. It works fine in the development environment. i deployed in windows server 2000 ,where I get this issue. the browser goes half way and throws the below exception after some time
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I have set the identity impersonate to true in web config. This should be mostly an access rights issue.I have even provided access rights for the "everyone " user in the excel file and as well for the interop component. Please post ur valuable comments.
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Jan 6, 2011
In building an Excel workbook with VB.Net, is it possible to sort all the worksheet tabs into a particular order? I'm building a workbook with individual sheets named by drive letter, i.e., "C Drive", "D Drive", etc.
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Aug 18, 2011
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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Mar 5, 2009
I'm currently generating some excel files using vb.net (2008). I want to protect the workbook or sheet inside, so that the user cannot edit anything within the file.I tried some options from MSDN but no luck and some other forums but no luck.The following is my last few lines of code in the program.
Code:
ExcelReport = New Excel.ApplicationClass
ExcelReport.Workbooks(1).SaveAs(ExcelFileName)
I basically don't want the user to edit anything inside the file. Perhaps a printout is allowed.
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Mar 16, 2010
how can i find all the open excell workbooks
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May 8, 2012
I 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
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Feb 11, 2009
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
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Jul 13, 2010
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.
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Mar 10, 2009
I took oledbconnection with excel file, after disposing this connection i m still unable to open that excel manually,It shows some access error.
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Feb 8, 2012
I have got problem, I got function which should correctly check if Woorkbook is open or not, but anyway if i got open my excel file or not I always get False Value in MsgBox. I don't know where is a problem. Please check it:
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Public Class Form1
Function IsXLBookOpen(strName As String) As Boolean
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Sep 4, 2009
I'm trying to open open an excel workbook thats going to be used as a template that i'm going to paste raw data in. It comes up with as an error saying that the file is missing, but its not. The path and file name are correct. So I'm curious if its something else or what.[code]...
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May 16, 2010
In the following code why does the message box display behind the workbook,instead of on top of it? It does this related to the line, app.Visible = True. if this line is commented out the message box appears in front, but there is no workbook visible. I've used the message box in other places without a problem. Is there something fundamental here that I'm missiing?
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Jul 26, 2010
how I might check to see if a specific Excel Workbook (call it Test.xlsx) is open?I have a routine that calls a subroutine. Sometimes at the time of the call Test.xlsx is open, sometimes not. So when the subroutine runs, I need it to check first to see if Test.xlsx is open. If it isn't then the subroutine should open it and perform the subroutine's purpose operations. If it is open, it should not try to "re-open" it or worse open a copy of it; it should simply perform the subroutine's purpose operations.
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May 10, 2010
I wrote code that creates an Excel workbook wit a single worksheet (see below). How can I update this to add multiple worksheets to the workbook?
''' <summary>
''' Create a new XLS Excel spreadsheet based on a passed CSV (comma separated values) file.
''' </summary>
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Jun 5, 2011
I'm trying to create an excel 2003 workbook from my vb.net project I referenced the code from this website [URL]
However i'm getting error on this line "objSheets = objBook.Worksheets"
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
''Create the Excel object declaration
Dim objExcel As Excel.Application = Nothing
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Jun 30, 2011
need to create an excel workbook with macros that clients accessingthe web app will download. Data to populate the workbooks comes from a database and I need macros to generate lookup tables in the workbooks. I cannot automate Excel to do this sincewill NOT beinstalled on the server. Which tool or component can I use for this task?
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Jun 5, 2011
to create excel workbook dynamically where data will be input and manipulated by user. i want graph as well to be created using the data i manipulated and entered.i want as many as work sheets to be added in workbook once it is created.
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Mar 25, 2011
My question centers upon the two approaches, (1) and (2), shown below, to declaring Excel workbooks in .Net.The two approaches interact differently with the lines "wkbk10 = app.wkbk10.open()" and later with
Range references to this workbook,like "rng1Stocks = CType(wkbk10.Sheets(1), Excel.Worksheet).Range("H5:H30")".
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Aug 26, 2009
I have a .Net program that responds to worksheet updates of an Excel 2003 workbook. Sometimes when the worksheet is updated and I try to write related data to my forms, I'm getting "Cross-thread operation not valid...." errors. This confuses me, as I have never done any multi-threading in my program. Does the mere act of me responding to events of an external excel worksheet mean I am now multithreading? Is there a way to handle the events without multithreading?
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May 17, 2012
I tried the following code to retrieve data from an excel file,apply query and save the result of query to another excel file. Now there are two problems: One,I am getting the required data but some reduntant unwanted data too. Second,It only works if the excel file, from which the data is retrieved, is open.
Dim dr As OleDbDataReader
Dim i As Integer
Dim strLine As String = ""
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