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Opening An Excel File

Hello, I was wondering how I bing up an instance of Excel an open a
specified excel spreadsheet from within a VB.Net application?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!!!!!
Nov 20 '05 #1
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* Jim Heavey <Ji*******@nospam.com> scripsit:
Hello, I was wondering how I bing up an instance of Excel an open a
specified excel spreadsheet from within a VB.Net application?


If Excel is associated with the Excel file type, you can use
'System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\foo.xls")'.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #2
Thanks

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