Use Excel as Maath Engine for VS.NET
 

I am trying to use the Excel object to perform
calculations within a VB.NET program.
I set an Excel object, pass a string argument to its
evaluate method and all seems to work OK until I try and
pass an array.
i.e

this works when S= "cos(3.673/4)/exp(-3.33)"
Dim xL As New Excel.Application
Dim B As String
B = xL._Evaluate(S).ToString

this doesn't when S = "Sum({1,2,3,4,5})
Dim xL As New Excel.Application
Dim B As String
B = xL._Evaluate(S).ToString

Any one got ideas???

Use Excel as Maath Engine for VS.NET
 

Hi Andrew,

The following works fine for me:

MessageBox.Show(xlApp.Evaluate("SUM({1,2,3,4,5})") .ToString)

where xlApp is an running instance of the Excel Application object.

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Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
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"andrew" wrote in message
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I am trying to use the Excel object to perform
calculations within a VB.NET program.
I set an Excel object, pass a string argument to its
evaluate method and all seems to work OK until I try and
pass an array.
i.e

this works when S= "cos(3.673/4)/exp(-3.33)"
Dim xL As New Excel.Application
Dim B As String
B = xL._Evaluate(S).ToString

this doesn't when S = "Sum({1,2,3,4,5})
Dim xL As New Excel.Application
Dim B As String
B = xL._Evaluate(S).ToString

Any one got ideas???