accessing excel without starting excel application

[cs_hart]

Is it possible to access excel worksheets without starting the excel
application?
If it makes any difference I'm running vb.net 2003 and excel 97.
thanks...charlie

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Cs

At least as a dataset however AFAIK as well in other ways.

Office
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311452

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/

Pia Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1e-3060-4f71-a6b4-01feba508e52&displaylang=en

Excel dataset fill and updat
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;316934

Excel too dataset
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...tskcodeexamplereadingexceldataintodataset.asp

Kelly's Dataset to Excel
http://www.kjmsolutions.com/datasetarray.htm

Excel object model
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2003_ta/html/ExcelObj.asp

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is it possible to access excel worksheets without starting the excel
application?

<URL:http://www.connectionstrings.com/>
-> "Excel"

 

[cs_hart]

Thanks - will investigate.