Read the calculated values from Excel using AddIn Formulas and Microsoft Object Library

Question

we are trying to retrieve a calculated value from a cell which has add-In formulas in it. The sample add-in "myUtilityl.xla" is working properly in excel. It retrieves value for the addin function =ISOWEEKNUM(F9). But we are unable to retrieve the value programatically using C# & Microsoft Object Library. The add-In "myUtilityl.xla" is attached to Excel. Environment is VS2010

I am providing the sample code here.

        string path = @"C:\Test.xls";
        Workbook theWorkbook;
        Worksheet theWorksheet;
        Range readRange;
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();            
        theWorkbook = app.Workbooks.Open(path);
        Sheets theSheets = (Sheets)theWorkbook.Worksheets;
        theWorksheet =  (Worksheet)theWorkbook.Worksheets.get_Item("Sheet1");            
        readRange = theWorksheet.get_Range("B1");            
        MessageBox.Show(Convert.ToString(readRange.Value));
        //theWorkbook.Save();
        app.Workbooks.Close();

I am new to Microsoft Object library. Any help or clue will be very helpful.

Answer 1

Well Brijesh its working now. The only thing that was missing was that we have to open the xla. app.Workbooks.Open(xlaFilePath); Then it started working.. Thank you very much. i am posting the code here anyways

        string path = @"C:\Test2.xls";
        string xlaPath = @"C:\Test2.xla";
        Workbook theWorkbook;
        Worksheet theWorksheet, theWorksheet2;
        Range readRange;
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
        app.Workbooks.Open(xlaPath);
        theWorkbook = app.Workbooks.Open(path);
        theWorksheet2 = (Worksheet)theWorkbook.Worksheets.get_Item("Sheet2");
        theWorksheet2.get_Range("A3").Value = 7;
        theWorksheet2.get_Range("A4").Value = 7;
        theWorkbook.RefreshAll();

        theWorksheet = (Worksheet)theWorkbook.Worksheets.get_Item("Sheet1");           
        readRange = theWorksheet.get_Range("A1");
        Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(readRange.Value));
        Console.ReadLine();            //theWorkbook.Save();             
        theWorkbook.Close();
        app.Workbooks.Close();

Above code inputs two values into cells of sheet2 and the VBA UDF calculated value is retrieved.

Answer 2

you may add following in your code sample

        var addins = Application.AddIns.Add(xlaFilePath);

        if (!addins.Installed)
        {
            addins.Installed = true;                  
        }