Re: Accessing Excel from ISE Eiffel

OK

I will try with an older compiler but with Eiffel Studio 6.1. I tried
to install the recommended compiler at Windows 2000 but it did not
work to install it, at least not directly from the MS download site.
Maybe due to firewall-problems. I will see what I can find out.
I will then try to build my own IA. Do you know were to start to read
about that?

Regards

Anders

--- In eiffel_software@..., "Peter Gummer" <p-gummer@...>
wrote: THen
> > I probably can use an older version of the MS compiler (if it is
> > still available) and also try to find an older version of the
PIAs.
>
> Hi Anders,
>
> I suspect that this will work on Windows 2000. Have you tried it?
(The fact
> that Microsoft doesn't mention Windows 2000 as "supported" would, I
suspect,
> be due to the fact that Microsoft probably doesn't support Windows
2000 any
> more. The compiler and the PIAs probably work, despite the lack of
official
> support.)
>
> I'm using EiffelStudio 6.1 with the Visual Studio 2005 compiler, by
the way.
> You don't have to use the "recommended" C compiler. So stick with
6.1, and
> try the C compiler and PIAs: they probably work.
>
> If you find that they don't work, you have the option of building
your own
> IAs (Interop Assemblies) for Excel, rather than using Microsoft's
PIAs
> (Primary Interop Assemblies). Building your own IAs has some
advantages,
> despite Microsoft's recommendations to the contrary. I used my own
Excel IAs
> for the application I built a couple of years ago. One thing to
beware of is
> that Micrsoft's PIAs are not CLS-compliant: this made them unusable
by
> EiffelStudio 5.6 (although I think Paul Bates implemented a work-
around in
> EiffelStudio 5.7 for this Microsoft bug). It only takes a minute or
so to
> build your own IAs, once you know how.
>
> - Peter Gummer
>



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