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Re: Excel

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at ??ail.com> Jan 08, 2008
• 1658 views

Mike777 wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I need to go the ActiveX route.  My understanding is that you
> only
> need/want ActiveX is you want to go outside of the Excel framework.  For
> example,
> if you want to write to or read directly from the file system.  If all you
> want
> to do is memory bound, I think an Add-in can be compiled as a special form of
> DLL.  I remember some KB articles on it the last time I looked, which was
> quite
> a while ago (I told you it wasn't a rush!).  Now that I've at least posted
> here,
> I'll see if I can't find something that lays out the requirements as far as
> how the DLL has to be built.

Writing an Office Add-in is tough at best. I wrote one for Outlook in VB 2005
Express (.NET) and it was rather hairy. Lots of .NET and/or COM code is required.
I think it may be possible with EuCOM, but Microsoft abstracts so many things, I
wouldn't know where to begin.

-Greg