Re: Newbie question on embedding excel in a dialog based application

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:13:36 -0700
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Hi Christoph,

To add to what Ajay wrote,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q184663/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311546
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179706

These are in VB, but you may get some ideas from the code,

http://www.kidasa.com/information/programmers/excel/oleexcel.html

Tom

"Christoph Conrad" <nospam@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
news:87r6r5g7ve.fsf@ID-24456.user.uni-berlin.de...

Hi,

i am new to MFC programming and i wonder how to embed Excel in a CDialog
window. The application is a dialog based app. My questions are:

- is it possible to use ole embedding without doc/view?

- when i need doc/view: can i add a hidden doc/view window to my dialog
 based app to add a doc/view container to embed excel? Or does that
 clash and give unexpected results?

- is it possible to show only an excel table without the row/column
 captions, the "raw" table? It should not be modified by the user.

- i am searching documentation about the programming interface from
 excel, but can't found exhaustive references on the web.

I am posting the first time to this group. My contributions to the
programming community consists of testing programs and writing bug
reports (mainly CVS Emacs and CVS Gnus).

Best regards,
Christoph

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