Using Excel 12 Library on a client with Excel 2003

[pizzaboy]

Hi,

Came up with an installation issue recently. I have Office 2007 installed on the development machine, but the client only has Office 2003.

I'm only using quite basic Excel functionality, is there any way I can reference the Excel 11 on the development machine? Where can I find the Interop library for Excel 11?

Also during publishing, is it possible to include the interop libraries so I don't have to mess around online during the installation stage?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

 

[kkroeker]

This is an older thread, obviously, but I would like to see an answer to this as well. My client has both Excel 2007 and 2003 machines, but none with both, and the code needs to run on all of them.

 

[quimbo]

common problem, except some of my people here have older versions than 2003. ended up purchasing GemBox.Spreadsheet

Excel C#/VB.NET component - read/write XLS/XLSX/CSV with GemBox.Spreadsheet

really simple to use and I never have to worry about what version of excel to create for.

There is a free version, see here for the limitations:

Reading/Writing XLS/XLSX/ODS/CSV/HTML files with GemBox.Spreadsheet Free .NET Component

Also has a great object model for reading spreadsheets.

 

[kkroeker]

Nice...

quimbo, that looks pretty sweet. Thanks for that.

In my case, the client decided to go with Excel 2003 machines, so I went back to the Excel object library 11.0.

Thank goodness...