>I have a basic question about reading, creating, and writing to MS Excel spreadsheets.
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>If I know that the computer upon which I am installing an application has Excel installed on it, does Excel expose everything I need through its DLLs to open a spreadsheet and pull data out of it into a DataSet (not necessarily in a single method call) and to create an Excel spreadsheet, populate it, save it, etc.?
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>Right now, we are using Crystal Reports to create an Excel spreadsheet. Is that necessary from .NET or is there a more direct route from from DataSet to .xls file?
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>Can someone recommend a good API/SDK for MS Excel objects?
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>Does the API/SDK vary much by version of MS Excel or are the exposed methods pretty consistent?
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>How can I check, in code, for the presense of a needed DLL that I am not distributing? I don't think I can distribute MS Excel DLLs and I don't want to buy a license.
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>Thanks.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/d2tx7z6d(en-us,vs.80).aspxIs a good startıng place.
Cetin
