Excel VSTO Addin example video!
A day and a half behind schedule, here’s a long (10mins!) video of how to write and “deploy” as VSTO addin for Excel 2007. It was, to be honest, a nightmare to do, as my PC is about 100 years old! I...
View ArticlePED (Professional Excel Development) Second Edition!!!!
Back in 2005 Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey and John Green collaborated on one of the most useful Excel development books ever written. That book, affectionately known as PED (Professional Excel...
View ArticleProfessional Excel Development Second Edition
Well my copy arrived this morning, and what a beauty it is! I’ve obviously only had a cursory glance (stupidly busy with work – UAT any one?) but I have to say that it’s really impressive. There’s...
View ArticleA Devlopers Tool of Choice?
When we talk about which language to use we often, if not always get talking about the technical advantages of a given tool, XLL’s are faster than VBA, VBA is easier to deploy than VSTO, VSTO is more...
View ArticleLearning Excel and .Net
Jayson (of Excel Ninja) asked about useful resources for folks wanting to develop Excel with languages other than VBA. I’ll limit this list to .Net stuff, VSTO and everything else! Here are some good...
View ArticleThe MIE Podcasts – Govert van Drimmelen
In this podcast we caught up with Excel DNA author Govert van Drimmelen. Govert is a Mathematics lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa. Excel DNA has had some attention from the...
View ArticleExcel Development beyond VBA
Over the next few weeks/months, I’m aiming to do a few post about Excel DNA. Excel DNA is a technology that allows dot Net code to be used with Excel, via a C XLL proxy. I hope to show how to start...
View ArticleWhy Excel DNA?
So if you read the first post hopefully you’ll be convinced that using dot Net is a viable option for an Excel developer. The next logical question you face is what method should you use to deploy your...
View ArticleGet a list of dot Net Framework versions on a PC
File under handy, but unlikly to remember, paste this js line in to the address bar. (I.E only!) javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent) A message box pops up listing the framework versions, handy.
View ArticleUK Excel Developer Conference 2012
Its that time again… The last UK XL dev con back in 2010, was a great event, some say the best London centric Excel developer event of the year. Good news. Simon is doing another one next year (2012),...
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