I have a problem that closely relates to this problem Microsoft Excel Error: "There was a problem sending the command to the program." whereby opening Excel gives There was an error sending a command to the program error.
However, rather than the file existing and being opened or shortcutted-to, I am using MVC3 with an action that generates a bunch of data, generates an excel file (using NPOI), writes it to a MemoryStream and then chucks that to the browser using the built-in return File(etc) ActionResult, with something akin (but shortened here to aid readability) to this:
return File(myMemoryStream, "application/vnd.ms-excel", "filename.xls");
The first time you click the link which fires this action and returns this File - it comes up with the error. if you press ok and try it again it works, and will continue to work... forever
Now I know this is potentially something to do with disabling DDE/plug-ins or something in Excel - but since I'm generating an excel workbook and dumping it to a memory stream rather than opening something that exists permanently on the file system, I'm not sure what options I have to remove the issue.
Any suggestions on how to get around it? Perhaps I have the wrong mime-type?
The Content-Type application/vnd.ms-excel is sending the command to the Browser to open the file in the Browser. Which can be the cause of issue. Try setting the content type to application/x-msexcel.
In your example the browser will try to open an Excel spreadsheet in the browser (if the user has Excel installed).
return File(myMemoryStream, "application/vnd.ms-excel", "filename.xls")
Please make the following change
return File(myMemoryStream, "application/x-ms-excel", "filename.xls")
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So I am using VBA code to open a Excel file, and download data into the worksheet that contains the code.
It worked, now I get the error:
Error accessing file. Network connection may have been lost.
I opened the code to see where it is falling. (I thought maybe the file has changed location or the name has been changed.) When I go through the code (using F8), I immediately get the error on the first line of code (SUB TITLE) and it is marked yellow.
"Error accessing file. Network connection may have been lost"
This (and other generic error messages) can be thrown when the VB Editor detects a discrepancy between the source code (the text you see in the editor) and the compiled binary 'p' code also saved in the workbook. This discrepancy situation is commonly referred to as a "corrupt" workbook.
A temporary fix is to export the modules, forms, and classes one by one, create a new workbook and import them back in. At this point you can now at least edit your source code in order to address the root cause.
However, if the root cause of the corruption is not dealt with in your source code, then whenever the VB Editor next runs/compiles the troublesome portion of your code the corruption in the compiled binary 'p' code will be reintroduced.
This corruption will become apparent only once you have saved and reopened the workbook, at which point the VB Editor will detect the discrepancy between the source code and the binary 'p'code saved in the workbook and throw the error once again.
My solution on the following post gives insight into one such cause of this error due to inadvertently creating a circular dependency in classes that use the IMPLEMENTS statement:
IMPLEMENTS circular dependency issue
matlab (2015b) in my new notebook ThinkPad function xlsread/ xlswrite not work
for every exist excel file， xlsread not load the data
xlswrite also not work in every path
error use xlsread (line251)
catch exception
if isempty(exception.identifier)
exception = MException('MATLAB:xlsreadold:FormatError','%s', exception.message);
end
throw(exception);
the method import data also not work for excel file。
I found this answer in
https://cn.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/282688-why-my-excel-file-can-not-be-read-by-matlab hope it can help you:
Who has problem to read excel file, can follow this order.
1- open the excel> file, >option, >add in, manage then select COM ADD IN, and clear everything (unchecked). everything should be cleared (unchecked).
2- restart the PC, and open the matlab.
3- perform xlsread command.
NOTE: for those people who use foxit pdf reader, it is potential to face this problem, so follow mentioned order.
NOTE: sometimes by using the matlab, configuration of excel is changed in unknown way, therefore there is no way to open the usual excel file in windows by double click.
So, open excel from desktop icon, file> option,> advanced,> general and then make clear (unchecked) "the ignore applications that use dynamic data exchange (DDE)". (same information for NOTE 2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3001579) these are some error for excel worker with matlab and related command.
This is my code to clear the excel file I have opened.
% get running excel file
Excel = actxGetRunningServer('Excel.Application');
ExcelFile = Excel.get('Workbooks','usbTC0832.xls');
ExcelSheet = ExcelFile.Sheets.Item('Sheet1');
ExcelFile.Worksheets.Item('Sheet1').Range('A2:C520').ClearContents
% ExcelFile.Save;
Pretty straightforward and it works perfectly in another system. In my new system however it throws up the error
>>Error using COM.Excel_Application/get
>>Invoke Error, Dispatch Exception: Invalid index.
It works fine the first time right after I restart my system. Every instance afterwords it throws up that error. I've tried restarting matlab but it doesn't go away. I seem to need to restart my system. I can't understand what the problem is. Any help would be appreciated.
It may be that the get on Workbooks tries to open the file.
But if it is already open, it will raise an error.
Try to look for it first, with Excel.Workbooks.Item('usbTC0832.xls').
That also could give an error if it is NOT open, you should capture it and if not open, use the get.
I have generated an excel file from xml. But i can not open it with Excel. Excel gives the following error opening it:
Problems came up in the following areas during load:
Table
Then it shows a message that the log file corresponding the error can be found at : C:/Documents and Setting/myUserName/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.MSO/xxxxx.log
But i can not find Content.MSO folder in my windows. I checked folder settings and made all folders visible but i still can not access this folder. So that i can not analise the log file.
how could i find the generated log file?
I found the problem without analising the log file. i stil can not access the log file in temporary internet files. But i realised that i put a string(non-number) characters on a number-styled cell in Excel xml. So if you having the similar issues about your Excel file generated from xml, then have a look at if your cell values are appopriate with your cell data type.
If you type or paste the path of the log file into Explorer or your text editor of choice, you may find that the folder does exist, despite being invisible.
In my case it was a <Row> with an incorrect ss:Index
I was using a template and the last row had a fixed Index=100. If the number of rows I added exceeded 100, this last row had a wrong index and excel threw the error without any other message or log (MacOSX, Excel 15.25.1). I wish they printed more informative error messages, what a waste of our time.
Excel 2016. My error message was "Worksheet Settings". Path was pointing to non-existing file.
My cause of the problem was ExpandedRowCount not big enough for number of rows in Worksheet. If you add rows in XML directly (i.e. on a machine where Excel is not installed), make sure to increment number of rows in ExpandedRowCount.
yes.Even i too faced the same problem and problem was with the data type of cells ofexcel generated using xslt
In addition to checking the data being used vs "Type" assigned, make sure that the list of characters that need to be encoded for XML are indeed encoded.
I had a system that appeared to be working, but then some user data including & and < was throwing this error.
If you're not sure what's going on with your file, try http://www.xmlvalidation.com/ - that helped be spot the issue in a large file immediately.
I used this function to fix it, modified from this post:
function xmlsafe($s) {
return str_replace(array('&','>','<','"'), array('&','>','<','"'), $s);
}
and then run echo xmlsafe($myvalue) where you were just echoing $myvalue in your script.
This seems to be more appropriate for XML than htmlentities() or other options built into PHP.
I had the same issue, and the answer was - type of Cell was Number and some values doesn't converts to this type on my backend.
I had the SAME problem,
and its because de file is TOO BIG.
I try an extract from SAP, more little than the one with that make the error) and save it in XML file. and it WORK, no more error.
so maybe if you can save in 2 Excel files XML instead of 1 it will be good ;)
ALicia
Excel_Obj = CREATE OleObject
Excel_Obj.ConnectToNewObject( 'excel.application' )
Excel_Obj.Workbooks.Add
Excel_Obj.Application.ActiveWorkbook.WorkSheets.Add
Excel_Sheet = Excel_Obj.Application.ActiveWorkbook.WorkSheets[1]
//EXAMPLE
Excel_Sheet.Cells[1,1] = 45
Excel_Obj.Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(ls_file,56) //csv
//where ls_file = the Opened File
error happened after / during saveas.
try catch throw "error calling external object..in click..line.. saveas.."
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i want to state to the user that the excel file is open therefore cannot be overwritten properly. I used a try catch and throwed a proper message but before the messagebox for the catch event happens, the PB execution error R0035 happens. any solutions or proper way to know if the excel file is open.
You might be able to check if the file is open first, have a look at this answer:
how to check if file is opened in excel using OLE (leaves excel process open)
I'd try a PowerScript FileOpen () call with a LockReadWrite! parameter to see if it can be opened, followed immediately by a FileClose () if it was successful. (I think this is a PowerScript-specific variation on the DXL solution Colin linked to.)
Good luck,
Terry
Have you tried approaches similar to these?
Using Win32 API:
http://www.rgagnon.com/pbdetails/pb-0030.html
Using PB function fileopen()with the (default) exclusive rights set:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1610670
In other words, see if the file can be opened exclusively before connecting to Excel or making the CSV?
You will have to turn off the option to break into the debugger for that exception to see the exception handling work in the IDE. Look for the Help topic "Exception Settings dialog box" for details. Once you see it's working I recommend you set it back to break into the debugger, since you'd normally want to see what threw the error.
You cannot use ole when document is open( even you set lock write) by the user and not by apllication.
my approach, I have been using many times till now:
Check excel is open or not, use use can use api or wsh script in the internet to check app opened. If opened do not run save as and tell user to close excel and not run it for while for while.
if you user run excel and your program still running active workbook and worksheet application will be switch to excel that opened by user ( imagine it wrong written data).
Change your code as below
if Excel_Obj.ConnectToNewObject( 'excel.application' ) <> 0 then
messagebox("warning", "could connect to excel", stopsign!)
RETURN
end if
just for knowledge another technique is DDE call, but not common today and most complicated.
Happy coding From pb developer.