Question

I have some filters applied on my input excel sheets, so I decided to remove them using showAllData() method in vb.net.

MSDN Reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb178108(v=office.12).aspx

But it is giving a very strange exception on that line : Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC

My code :

sh = myWorkBook.Sheets(2)
' sh is my sheet
sh.Visible = True
sh.Activate()
sh.Select()
sh.ShowAllData()     ' Exception raised on this line

What am I doing wrong ?

What is this exception, I have seen this a lot lately. But its never clear what went wrong ?

Answer 1

Got it fixed :

The sheets that I was using for input didn’t had filtered data when tested.

So, here goes the code change :

sh = myWorkBook.Sheets(2)
' sh is my sheet
sh.Visible = True
sh.Activate()
sh.Select()
If sh.FilterMode = True Then
    sh.ShowAllData()
End If

The extra if, solved the issue.

But still the raised exception was not at all helpful. Explain the exception if someone can.