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BUG: “Old format or invalid type library” error when automating Excel (Christin Boyd)
06 July 09 03:54 PM

A customer recently reported this bug when running their Shared Addin for Excel on French Windows.  Error: 0x80028018 (-2147647512) Description: Old Format or Invalid Type Library His solution worked great on English Windows, but gave errors in any Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, primary interop assemblies, VB, VBA, Office Development, Visual Studio 2010

I Just Want to Format a Cell in My Excel Worksheet (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 08 10:41 AM

So you just want to write some code to format a cell in a worksheet. However, there isn't a help topic in sight that shows you how to do it. There may be a topic out there, but you don't have time to sift through the web searching for it. You're not alone. Read More...

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Filed under: Norm Estabrook, Office 2007, Office 2003, Excel 2003, Excel 2007

Databinding best practices for Excel (Christin Boyd)
14 April 08 09:14 PM

I read a question on the forum about databinding in an Excel solution. The developer was asking about Excel 2003, but the answer I wrote will work for both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Here's the question: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3122341&SiteID=1&mode=1 Read More...

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Filed under: Christin Boyd, Data, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, TableAdapter, DataSet, VB, C#

Visual Studio Command Bar for Arranging Controls on Documents and Worksheets (McLean Schofield)
10 April 08 02:05 PM

One of the lesser-known features of Visual Studio Tools for Office is the Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel command bar. When you are developing a document-level project for Word or Excel (for example, a Word Document or Excel Workbook Read More...

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Filed under: Command bars, McLean Schofield, Excel 2003, Word 2007, Word 2003, Excel 2007