Hi Rahul,

<<I tried attaching the addin in to XP by browsing to the xll file and i get
the message "<pathis not a valid add-in".

Have you checked your DEF file setting in VC.NET? This is the error
you'd get if your project wasn't compiled with a DEF file, because the
exported function names would be mangled and Excel wouldn't be able to
recognize them.

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"RahulA" wrote in message
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So according to Keith, .Net Shared Add-in will not work which makes
sense because the older versions of Office will not know what .Net is
however an add-in is just a dll which should be implementing some
interfaces exposed by Excel so ideally it should be supported in XP
and higher if not 2000.

Rob,
I opened the entire project in VC++ 6.0 and i am going to start
hacking it. I tried attaching the addin in to XP by browsing to the
xll file and i get the message "<pathis not a valid add-in". i read a
couple of other posts about it however nobody was able to overcome the
problem of loading the addin in excel.

if you guys have any ideas then let me know. thanks.