Search on the internet came up with a VB 6.0 programm to write a workbook
without Excel.
This code came from the source project witch you will find he

http://www.freevbcode.com/Source/006/vb%20Excel.zip

This link comes from:
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=6856

Here's a bit of code from this source...........

' Procedure : Function Serialize
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Public Function Serialize() As Byte()
Dim b() As Byte
Dim bname() As Byte

recLen = (Len(field_4_sheet_name)) + 12
ReDim b(recLen - 1)

CopyMemory b(0), ByVal VarPtr(ID), 2 ''' record
ID
b(2) = UBound(b) - 3 ''' Record
Length

CopyMemory b(4), ByVal VarPtr(field_1_stream_Position), 4 ''' Stream
Position
CopyMemory b(8), ByVal VarPtr(field_2_visibility), 1 '''
Visibility

b(9) = field_3_sheet_type ''' sheet
type
b(10) = Len(field_4_sheet_name) ''' Name
length

b(11) = 0 ''' Unicode
flag (compressed String)
bname = StrConv(field_4_sheet_name, vbFromUnicode)
CopyMemory b(12), bname(0), UBound(bname) + 1 ''' sheet
name

Serialize = b
End Function

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Maybe this will help....................

Greetz,

No_Good_At_All





"keepITcool" schreef in bericht
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Thanks for the suggestion, but alas....

As far as i can figure..Offset 4 thru 8 are a long representing the
position of the worksheet stream in the file. The fact that offset 6
is 0 means the stream is further down the file..


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"No_Good_At_All" wrote :

I'm no good at vba but tried to take a closer look.......

Looking for the wrong value?

I changed the code a bit to write the values to the sheet and i also
added a dialog sheet, a xl4 macro sheet etc.
When i look at the written values i see that aByt(6) is a zero for
every sheet, except for the worksheets.
If it's a worksheet, the value is greater than zero.

Hope this helps




"keepITcool" schreef in bericht
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Hi guys

ADO (Jet) needs Sheet Names and cannot use indexes. (Since tables in
databases would have no 'ordinal' position)

To give myself a bit (or byte) of flexibility I'm trying to come up
with a little structure reader for closed files. I've got a nice
simple routine... Problem is it will recognize a DialogSheet as a
Worksheet

To be precise it returns a 0 (worksheet) in byte 9 of the BoundsSheet
record...

So I assume I've got to jump to the stream itself.. but I haven;t
figured out how (yet) I presume I must use the Long at offset 4 in
the record as my target address?

Anyone any ideas? (or working code?)
My code below.. Now a bad start as is :)


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Function ReadSheets(sFullName As String, _
Optional bWorksheetsOnly As Boolean = True) As Collection
'Returns a collection of the sheets in a workbook.

Dim lHnd&, lLen&, lPos&, aByt() As Byte, cRes As Collection
Dim iPos&, iTyp%, sTxt$

Const IDboundsheet = &H85
Const BuffSize = &H400

If Dir(sFullName) = vbNullString Then Exit Function

Set cRes = New Collection
ReDim aByt(0 To BuffSize)
lLen = FileLen(sFullName)
lHnd = FreeFile

Open sFullName For Binary Access Read As #lHnd Len = BuffSize

Do
lPos = lPos + BuffSize - 1
Get #lHnd, lPos, aByt
iPos = InStrB(aByt, ChrB(IDboundsheet))
Loop While iPos = 0 And lPos < lLen

Do While iPos 0
lPos = lPos + iPos - 1
Get #lHnd, lPos, aByt
sTxt = Mid(StrConv(aByt, vbUnicode), 13, aByt(10))
iTyp = aByt(9)

cRes.Add Array(sTxt, iTyp), sTxt
If aByt(aByt(2) + 4) < IDboundsheet Then
iPos = 0
Else
iPos = InStrB(4, aByt, ChrB(&H85))
End If
Loop

Close #lHnd
Set ReadSheets = cRes

End Function