[cw-discuss] CrossOver support for .NET

[Timothy]

Sadly, our Excel spreadsheets do not render well in either OOo or 
Gnumeric. --Tim

Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> If you are working really hard to attain such functionality on Linux 
> or Mac, consider trying OpenOffice.org (OOo). Unfortunately, their 
> Basic is not compatible with VBA, but the new OOo 3.0 offers at least 
> some compatibility. Worse case, you write your macros to the OOo API, 
> and manipulate your Excel documents. i have managed to do a lot of 
> that with no problems on both Windows and Linux without using MS Office.
>
> Timothy wrote:
>> Specifically, I'm talking about generating Excel spreadsheets 
>> programatically, not manually, with a data file and an external 
>> program. I do that now on Windows with VB, but I've also used C# .NET 
>> on Windows for opening Outlook, opening email, deleting email, etc. 
>> for testing purposes, all under program control, so I know that C# 
>> .NET would work to generate spreadsheets ... on Windows. So far, I've 
>> not been successful getting my VB scripts (developed on Windows) to 
>> run under CrossOver, which would be useful, too.
>>
>> Currently, I've been experimenting with Jexelapi, but not all Excel 
>> functionality is supported, including functionality I need. I've also 
>> not have much luck with PyWin32 on CrossOver. So, bottom line, if 
>> you're getting .NET working on CrossOver, there may be hope for 
>> programmatic Excel spreadsheet generation.
>>
>> --Tim
>>
>> Jeremy White wrote:
>>  
>>> Timothy wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Will .NET under CrossOver support Office automation? --Tim
>>>>           
>>> I'm not sure I know what you mean.  Are you talking about running
>>> VB .NET or C# applications from Office?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>       
>>
>>
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