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Guest Best way to write an app... 10-19-2005, 02:05 AM
Kaak Tom I you can write .Net... 10-19-2005, 05:24 AM
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    Tom Couvret
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    Re: Best way to write an app using Excel sheets that doesnt look like excel

    Hi Kaak,

    Thansk again for your help. We are trying to do a financial modelling app
    where we have complete control over what the user does. Excel is a very
    convenient grid subsystem, because it already does all the formatting,
    calculations etc that we need. What we would really like is to have a
    windows app that behaves itself properly, but that embeds an Excel sheet on
    the page. This would be in place of other grid controls that we could use as
    alternatives.

    As a fall-back position, using an excel sheet with a task pane is not bad,
    the main reservation being a marketing / sales consideration. If we are
    trying to create our own financial modelling app, then we would prefer it to
    look like something that is worth some money, not just an add-in to Excel
    which the market sees as a low-value, or at leat low-cost, addition rather
    than a high-value app.

    I have looked at the office web components, which are of course easy to use,
    but as you say there is too much missing functionality.

    So I think my alternatives are to either create a standalone app, and use
    some other form of grid control to do excel-like things, or to do it as an
    excel app with a task pane.

    Regards,
    Tom

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    > First the code is not hosted in excel but exist along side excel in a
    > .dll
    >
    > If its possible what you want depens on what kind of functionality you
    > want
    >
    > There is a good excel control for on a form in the new visual studio
    > but never
    > with the full excel functions.
    >
    > Can you give me a more detailed description of your application
    >
    > Maybe I can help you by thinking of a good solution
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    I have never done this but mabey you can
    Start a form when excel starts then hide excel and only use is for the calculations
    and display this in a control on the form?

    This can only be done with VSTO

    Kaak

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