Excel Beta 2 Tech Refresh DrawingObject Status

[Anthony Berglas]

For those who might be interested:-

+ The basic bugs remain, ie. Accessing a shape as a DrawingObject does
not work, eg. to reference its interior.

+ Excel 2007 no longer corrupts shape objects when it saves a workbook
-- they can still work with DrawingObjects in Excel 2003. Good.

+ Copying a worksheet from an add-in to another workbook (for
prototypes) works now. Good.

+ Accessing a shape as a Shape also does not work properly, eg.
..Fill.ForeColor.SchemaColor.

My guess is that they are working through their regressions. Hopefully
they will fix the bugs, maybe they won't. But I'll wait and see before
spending any more time on it.

There does not appear to be any formal way to submit bug reports to
them.

Also, is this the best forum for Excel 2007 Beta issues? I've heard
rumors of a special "beta" discussion forum.

Anthony

 

[Guest]

Hi Anthony,

I think I just replied to one of your previous posts, but if you have code
that worked in 2003 that does not work in 2007, we'd love to take a look at
it. Please shoot it to me via email and include:
- code sample
- steps needed to reproduce the problem

Cheers,
Dan
Excel Team

Note: We've only got a couple weeks to get bugs filed and fixed, so if I've
requested additional info via email, it'd be great if you can get that to us
ASAP. Please include any necessary sample files, as well as detailed repro
steps so that we can try to reproduce the problem on our side. Also - if
you're emailing me directly (definitely the most efficient at this point)
you'll want to fixup my email address to remove everything after danbatt and
before the @.

 

[Anthony Berglas]

Hello Dan,

I have prepared a special addin that demonstrates the bugs in a few
lines of code. I have e-mailed it to you.

Thanks for your offer to look at them, and for monitoring this group.

Regards,

Anthony