Thread: Print a File via Excel

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    Something Clever ginoitalo's Avatar
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    Print a File via Excel

    Out of the ordinary (well a bit anyways)

    My program outputs an html file which is dynamically created.

    On the Print menu item, I'd like to open+print that file using excel, then have excel close right away.

    So far I haven't found anything to do with printing besides:

    using Excel;

    ...Well, there's my "discussion starter"

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    Registered User CompiledMonkey's Avatar
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    I believe I heard that there are ways you can tie into the Office suite via a .NET application. Once you get in, I'm sure there is a print method you can invoke.

    If you find a way to reference the Office suite, please let us know.

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    Something Clever ginoitalo's Avatar
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    The Closest I've Found and it doesn't even Build ..

    Code:
    using System;
    using System.Reflection; 
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices; 
    using Excel;
    
    class Excel {
     public static int Main() {
      Application exc = new Application();
      if (exc == null) {
       Console.WriteLine("ERROR: EXCEL couldn't be started!");
       return 0;
      }
      
      exc.set_Visible(0, true); 
      Workbooks workbooks = exc.Workbooks;
      _Workbook workbook = workbooks.Add(XlWBATemplate.xlWBATWorksheet, 0); 
      Sheets sheets = workbook.Worksheets;
    
      _Worksheet worksheet = (_Worksheet) sheets.get_Item(1);
      if (worksheet == null) {
       Console.WriteLine ("ERROR: worksheet == null");
      }
      
      Range range1 = worksheet.get_Range("C1", Missing.Value);
      if (range1 == null) {
       Console.WriteLine ("ERROR: range == null");
      }
      const int nCells = 1;
      Object[] args1 = new Object[1];
      args1[0] = nCells;
    range1.GetType().InvokeMember("Value", BindingFlags.SetProperty, null,range1, args1);
      return 100;
     }
    }

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