Are you sure you need to "start and stop Excel"? Perhaps you can
accomplish whatever it is you are doing that for by using the
spreadsheet as a datasource and using ADO.NET?
- DG
--- In padnug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Cramer" <d_m_cramer@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to dotnet and windows services so I apologize if
this is
> something you all have already discussed.
>
> I need to start and stop Excel from a windows service. My service
is working
> just fine reading/writing files and other basic tasks. However,
when the
> excel application is created, my service tries to install Excel
when it is
> run as "LocalSystem". When I run it as a user with administrative
privileges
> an error is returned (the error says that no error was returned but
an error
> occurred). I am using C#, .NET 1.1 on windows 2000.
>
> protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
> {
> Excel.Application xl = new Excel.Application (); // code
stops here,
> excel application never created
> // do something, exit excel, clean up
> ...
> }
>
> Is it not possible to start Excel from a Windows Service? I have
tried
> everything I can think of on the adminstration side, now I am
trying to
> solve this programmatically. I have this same code in another
application
> and it works just fine. The UI doesn't come up and isn't needed.
Has anyone
> encountered this problem or have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
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