Question

I ran into a little problem. I’ve created a code that creates a Excel sheet with a few records and creates a line chart. But the problem is I cant seem to position the chart at a specified position. Here is my code:

 excelApp.ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart.Select();
 excelApp.ActiveChart.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xlLine;
 excelApp.ActiveChart.SetSourceData(Source: excelApp.Range["Sheet1!$A$1:$B$7"]);
 excelApp.ActiveChart.Parent.Name = "mainChartView";
 excelApp.ActiveChart.Shapes.Item(excelApp.ActiveChart.Name).Top = 100; 
 // or excelApp.ActiveChart.Shapes.Item("mainChartView").Top = 100;

Both return the following error:

ArgumentExecption was unhandled (The item with the specified name wasn't found).

This is the error line:

excelApp.ActiveChart.Shapes.Item(excelApp.ActiveChart.Name).Top = 100; 
// or excelApp.ActiveChart.Shapes.Item("mainChartView").Top = 100;

I really hope that one of you has the correct awnser, help is very appreciated!

edit: Solution was:

excelApp.ActiveSheet.Shapes.Item("mainChartView").Top = 20;

Answer 1

i’ve found the anwser myself.

I replaced:

excelApp.ActiveChart.Shapes.Item(excelApp.ActiveChart.Name).Top = 100;

with:

excelApp.ActiveSheet.Shapes.Item("mainChartView").Top = 20;