Opening Excel files- Standard or Professional?

[ElPresidente]

To open and read data from Excel files, do I need to purchase VS2008
Standard or Professional? I was looking at the product comparison and
it says Standard does not include

Microsoft Office System 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
Microsoft Office System Runtime

Thanks

[GS]

I believe you don't need neither for excel. even the express version will do
with com interface..

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To open and read data from Excel files, do I need to purchase VS2008
Standard or Professional? I was looking at the product comparison and
it says Standard does not include

Microsoft Office System 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
Microsoft Office System Runtime

Thanks

[Gillard]

if you want to open excel 2007 files all you need is the Oen Xml Sdk
here is the link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...playlang=enthe interop assemblies are also available as a separate download"ElPres idente" <ch************ *@gmail.comwrot e in messagenews:d9* *************** *************** ***@m73g2000hsh .googlegroups.c om...To open and read data from Excel files, do I need to purchase VS2008Standard or Professional? I was looking at the product comparison andit says Standard does not include>Microso ft Office System 2003 Primary Interop AssembliesMicro soft Office System Runtime>Thanks

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On Sep 3, 2:12*pm, ElPresidente <chickenparme.. [e-mail] e:

To open and read data from Excel files, do I need to purchase VS2008
Standard or Professional? I was looking at the product comparison and
it says Standard does not include

Microsoft Office System 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
Microsoft Office System Runtime

Thanks

You can read data from Excel using OleDbCommands. These are available
in any version of Visual Studio.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]
http://sethrowe.blogspot.com/

[sloan]

You should try to work with excel withOUT the interops if possible.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...lect+*+from+Sh

Do a google search for "Select * from Sheet1" to find ways to use OleDB
instead of the interops.

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You can find a very very basic example (downloadable code) here as well.
http://sholliday.space s.live.com/blog/cns!A68482B9628 A842A!176.entry
using the EnterpriseLibra ry.Data

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To open and read data from Excel files, do I need to purchase VS2008
Standard or Professional? I was looking at the product comparison and
it says Standard does not include

Microsoft Office System 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
Microsoft Office System Runtime

Thanks