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But you have to make sure that you dispose of everything manually, otherwise you will leak memory
– MagicKat
Commented Sep 29, 2008 at 22:40
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@Ricky B: Also, in my experience with the interop is that it does use excel. Every time we used it, if Excel wasn't installed on the machine, we would get COM exceptions.
– MagicKat
Commented Sep 29, 2008 at 22:42
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@Geoffrey: ah OK you are going to make me work for it :) --> support.microsoft.com/kb/257757 Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application...
– Jennifer Zouak
Commented Mar 11, 2010 at 17:49
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I'm coming to this discussion after struggling more than a week on interop, and unless your needs are very simple, this is not gonna work. The support for formatting your spreadsheet is abysmal, which is arguably the reason for generating an .xls file and not just a flat .csv file. For example, have you tried outputting more than 911 characters in a cell, or have you tried setting the width of merged cells in a consistent manner? I have, and I can't tell you how much I hate this crap now... Do yourself a favor and go with one of the free libraries mentioned on this discussion.
– md1337
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 18:52
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He literally says he does not want to have to install office
– JSON
Commented Oct 21, 2020 at 18:58

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