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Error opening Excel file
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15/12/2011 17:52:14
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 6 SP5
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01531156
Message ID:
01531158
Views:
81
>>Hi,
>>
>>An automation process that used to work is now failing, in Excel 2010, for security reasons. Apparently Excel finds the idea of being automated to open an Excel file suspicious.
>>
>>The relevant commands are:
>>
>>
>>copy to (lcTempFile) type XLS
>>...
>>loWorkbookTemp = This.oExcel.oApp.Workbooks.Open(lcTempFile)
>>
>>
>>Excel - if it was previously open - says something about the trust center (similar to the message below, shown in Visual FoxPro).
>>
>>After accepting the message in Excel, Visual FoxPro gives the error message "You are attempting to open a file type that is blocked by your File Block settings in the Trust center..."
>>
>>I have used COPY TO ... TYPE XLS to make an Excel automation faster - transfer an entire DBF at once - since transferring one cell at a time would be exceedingly slow, especially for large files.
>>
>>Any ideas, how best to handle this?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Hilmar.
>
>Where you're creating that file? I also think I saw this or similar problem discussed either here or in MSDN VFP forum.

The filename is, for example, c:\docume~1\admini~1\config~1\temp\_3DUI4A4Z7.xls".

This filename is generated by the following function:
FUNCTION TempFileName()
	* Return unique filename, located on the TEMP path.
	return sys(2023) + "\" + sys(2015)
ENDFUNC && TempFileName
Regards,

Hilmar.
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