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Default Opening Excel with a stream

Hi All,

I am trying to get Excel to open using the contents of a stream that I
have populated from a database. Are there any samples/examples I can
review /

The code looks something like this (although I have removed error
handling for clarity):

ADO::_RecordsetPtr pRS("ADODB.Recordset",false);

_variant_t vRows;
_bstr_t bstrSelect("SELECT * from MyTable where name = 'Mysheet'");
pRS = m_pConn-Execute(bstrSelect, &vRows,0);

ADO::_StreamPtr pStr("ADODB.Stream");
pStr-Type = ADO::adTypeBinary;
pStr-Open
(vtMissing,ADO::adModeUnknown,ADO::adOpenStreamUns pecified,"","");

pStr-Write(pRS-GetFields()-GetItem((_variant_t)"DATA")-GetValue());


This works as I can use the following to open the spreadsheet
_bstr_t bstrFile("C:\Tmp\MySheet.xls");
pStr-SaveToFile(bstrFile,ADO::adSaveCreateNotExist);
LPDISPATCH lpDisp;
m_app.CreateDispatch("Excel.Application")lpDisp = m_app.GetWorkbooks();
ASSERT(lpDisp);
m_books.AttachDispatch(lpDisp);
m_books.Open
(bstrFile,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt, vOpt,vOpt,vOpt,vOpt);