Since, I could not find any satifying answer on the web for this question, I put forth it in Stackoverflow. I use activexscript to manipulate Excel, Outlook. But, even after I runexcelobj.Quit() at the end, I see an EXCEL.EXE still running in the task manager.
I tried using excelobj.Application.Quit() (as mentioned by some post in stackoverflow)also did not resolve the problem.
Can somebody help me with this??
Here's one way the application goes away in JScript:
// WScript.CreateObject for cscript.exe or wscript.exe
var excel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
// ...
excel.Quit();
// null out EVERY reference to Excel objects
excel = null;
CollectGarbage();
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I'm trying to invoke browser control in a Window Form using ChromiumFX framework in the Excel VSTO Addin.
The excel application throws the following alerts and another excel instance gets started.
Sorry, we couldn't find Files\Microsoft.xlsx. Is is possible it was removed, renamed of deleted ?
Sorry, we couldn't find Office\root\Office16\debug.log. Is is possible it was removed, renamed of deleted ?
Although I’m able to load the URL in the Web Browser control but i get the above errors multiple time and every time another instance of excel gets initiated.
I’m invoking the following piece of code after which the alerts start appearing.
var assemblyDir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(new System.Uri(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().EscapedCodeBase).LocalPath);
Environment.CurrentDirectory = System.IO.Path.Combine(assemblyDir, #".");
if (CfxRuntime.PlatformArch == CfxPlatformArch.x64)
CfxRuntime.LibCefDirPath = #"cef\Release64";
else
CfxRuntime.LibCefDirPath = #"cef\Release";
Chromium.WebBrowser.ChromiumWebBrowser.OnBeforeCfxInitialize += ChromiumWebBrowser_OnBeforeCfxInitialize;
ChromiumWebBrowser.OnBeforeCommandLineProcessing += ChromiumWebBrowser_OnBeforeCommandLineProcessing;
Chromium.WebBrowser.ChromiumWebBrowser.Initialize();
Any suggestions on what i might be doing wrong ? Or what piece of code i’m missing ?
I'm trying to update my Excel add-in to use the workbook SettingCollection instead of the Office.context.document.settings object. The documentation seems to suggest they are functionally equivalent, but with document.settings I can call saveAsync() and see my data persisted (in the PropertyBag in a webextensions.xml).
With ctx.workbook.settings.add('key', 'value'), I can get the settings and get them in the current session, but they don't get added to the webextensions.xml and aren't available on the next open of the add-in.
Is there a version of saveAsync for workbook settings that I'm missing? I assumed context.sync would take care of it, but I haven't had any luck.
Edit: I figured out what was causing my initial issue, but the problem is still there. When I close the browser tab with Excel Online and re-open it with my add-in, the settings are not persisting. Nothing is getting added to webextensions.xml.
Here is an example Excel.run()
window.Excel.run(async ctx => {
ctx.workbook.settings.add('hello', 'world');
await ctx.sync();
let setting = ctx.workbook.settings.getItemOrNullObject('hello');
setting.load('value');
await ctx.sync();
console.log(setting.value);
});
The setting 'hello' sets and exists the next if I relaunch my add-in, but not if I close the file and open my add-in.
there is a bug with the Excel rich API for settings, can you please try the Shared API flavor as a workaround in the meantime...
function createSetting() {
Office.context.document.settings.set("Foo", "bar");
Office.context.document.settings.saveAsync();
}
function readSetting() {
console.log(Office.context.document.settings.get("Foo"));
}
EDIT: There's a further detail I left out with my original post. The program is using a template stream rather than a concrete template for the ".Open" command. The template stream gets initialized with this code block:
public void Initialize(Stream templateStream)
{
spreadsheet = SpreadsheetDocument.Open(templateStream, true);
}
I'm still researching this, but does anyone know the implications of using a stream for the HeaderFooter object in OpenXML?
I'm new to OpenXML and still in the process of reading and learning what I can of this massive SDK. I've inherited a C# MVC.NET program that uses OpenXML to display information on an Excel spreadsheet and all of that is working, but I now need to add a footer to the same spreadsheet and I'm hitting some brick walls in my OpenXML knowledge.
I put the footer information I wanted into the spreadsheet, opened it up with the Open XML SDK Productivity Tool and found this code under <.x:oddFooter(OddFooter):
// Creates an OddFooter instance and adds its children.
public OddFooter GenerateOddFooter()
{
OddFooter oddFooter1 = new OddFooter();
oddFooter1.Text = "&L&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Page &P of &N&C&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Generated On: <Date/Time> Central&R&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Report";
return oddFooter1;
}
And this code one level up under <>x:headerFooter(OddFooter):
// Creates an HeaderFooter instance and adds its children.
public HeaderFooter GenerateHeaderFooter()
{
HeaderFooter headerFooter1 = new HeaderFooter();
OddFooter oddFooter1 = new OddFooter();
oddFooter1.Text = "&L&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Page &P of &N&C&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Generated On: <Date/Time> Central&R&\"Times New Roman,Regular\"Report";
headerFooter1.Append(oddFooter1);
return headerFooter1;
}
Now I of course need to append the footer info somewhere, and this is where I'm stuck. In <>x:worksheet(Worksheet) I see this line of code:
worksheet1.Append(headerFooter1);
This looked easy enough, but when I looked back at the application code I found no worksheet object to append to. I thought I was close with the following line of code:
spreadsheet.WorkbookPart.Workbook.Append(headerFooter1);
but this yielded nothing. In the application I see a SpreadsheetDocument object and references to OpenXMLParts... do I need to get a spreadsheet part to append to? Or do I need to take a different approach with a Spreadsheet versus a worksheet object? Do I need to materialize the current worksheet and then append?
I have a feeling this has an easy solution, but as I said I'm still learning the SDK.
Thank you!
For those who don't know about the productivity tool, it is included with the SDK and can be downloaded from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5124
On my 64 bit machine, the install path to the tool was:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Open XML SDK\V2.0\tool\OpenXmlSdkTool.exe"
You should be able to manually add a footer to a spreadsheet, and open it up with the tool and see the exact C# required to create the entire spreadsheet, including the footer. You can then remove the parts of the code that are unnecessary, like some of the styles that are automatically added.
My project has a requirement that it needs to check the password complexity before create the new account.
My code looks like:
NET_API_STATUS status;
NET_VALIDATE_PASSWORD_CHANGE_INPUT_ARG inputArg = {0};
NET_VALIDATE_OUTPUT_ARG* pOutputArg = NULL;
inputArg.ClearPassword = NewPass;
inputArg.PasswordMatch = TRUE;
status = NetValidatePasswordPolicy(DC, NULL, NetValidatePasswordChange,
&inputArg, (void**)&pOutputArg);
printf("status: %d, validationStatus: %d\n", status, pOutputArg->ValidationStatus);
NetValidatePasswordPolicyFree((void**)&pOutputArg);
I am working on windows XP.When I try to run, it prompt waring saying:
The procedure entry point NetValidPasswordPolicyFree could not be located in the dynamic link library NETAPI32.dll
From the MSDN it said the API is only valid in 2003 server and 2008 server.
Does it mean it can not work on XP?
Or can i find any other APIs to do the same thing as NetValidPasswordPolicy?
I googled a lot for this issue and found someone had asked similar question but it went unanswered :(. So, here I am trying my luck.
Even I tried to analyze 'NETAPI32.dll' in Reflector.exe, but while opening the .dll file it error out: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I am stuck badly and could not able to find any way. Any help will be appreciated :)
Issue has been solved :).
NetValidPasswordPolicy API from 'NETAPI32.dll' has requirements that it is not 'client' supported. Because of this requirement I am getting the warning: Entry point not found.
I tried my project on Windows 2003 server and it worked.
And my second question about 'Reflector.exe' is also invalid because 'NETAPI32.dll' is not .Net dll so Reflector wont recognize it.
I am working on a wpf application.
I am copying the data to excel sheet from database and saving the file and closing it once the operation is completed.
My question is:
How to stop the Process(EXCEL.EXE) in TaskManager->Processes ?
I have to delete the file after the operation is completed. I have written a pieceof code to stop the process in taskmanager, but didnt work..
private void EndExcelAPP(object obj)
{
try
{
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);
}
catch
{
}
finally
{
obj = null;
}
}
I cant delete it since using this too.. since it says the process is used by another process.
Please help me how to stop this process programatically in c# and delete the fiile ?
Thanks
Ramm
You have to make sure you close the workbook and exit the application:
Excel.Application xlApp ;
Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook ;
/* do your stuff */
xlWorkbook.Close();
xlApp.Exit();
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(xlWorkBook);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(xlApp);
Sounds like you're not cleaning up after yourself (or more accurately, after Excel). Check out:
How to properly clean up Excel interop objects in C#
After Excel has stopped running in the background you should be able to delete the file. And you shouldn't have to write code to kill the process.
Did you close the workbook before releasing it? That's what I do and it works for me. Here's an example.