If you want to automate Excel, you need to have Excel installed on the
machine.
PIA's do not change this. PIAs only provide a nice interface for .NET apps
to do the same thing.
Think of PIAs as a connector between a .NET application and MS Excel. If MS
Excel isn't installed, the connector is useless.
On the other hand if you want to create a document, a file that can be read
by Excel, there are several options for doing this without requiring that
Excel be installed locally. One of the ways is to use the OLEDB provider
for MS Excel. Another way is to produce your output in a .csv file that
Excel can read. Or an xml file that Excel can read.
Check the archives for hints.
-Dino
<an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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hi,
i've seen on the website of microsoft that the pia i've
download could run my program without office
in fact i was trying to get a solution for not put office
on the main server where i am working
so how can i do to do so, in fact how can i make my
programm of excel automation independant ?
thanks