Question

I am using the Office Integration Pack

After following instruction correctly I am still not able to get the Excel to Import working

My Visual Studio Lightswitch 2011 application is configured to host on IIS Server and use’s Easy Shell (so its the default Shell provided by MS).

So far I have tried is calling the

OfficeIntegration.Excel.Import(
   this.States, 
    @"C:\Users\Mr_Mia_Gie\My Documents\ExcelSheet.xls", 
    "Sheet1", 
   "A1:C3"); 

on _Execute event of a button (the button does not live on the Shell Command Bar)

The exception I get back is “Object variable or With block variable not set.”

Any solution or suggestion will be highly appreciated

Cheers

Answer 1

The office integration Pack is for Visual Studio LightSwitch windows application and does work for application that are hosted on IIS hence the below code throws exception

OfficeIntegration.Excel.Import(
   this.States, 
    @"C:\Users\Mr_Mia_Gie\My Documents\ExcelSheet.xls", 
    "Sheet1", 
   "A1:C3"); 

The link show that the extension does not support LS WebBrowser application http://officeintegration.codeplex.com/discussions/374585

Also the extension Import data from Excel does work for IIS hosted LS application that runs in webbrowser