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Upgrading Add-Ins to Excel 2007 -- Compatibility & Bugs
I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2,
and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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I would suggest you wait for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which is supposed
to arrive very soon, this will fix a large number of bugs. But even then you may face substantial rework because both the graphic layer and EUI have been rewritten and there are a number of VBA and object model incompatibilities. If you install XL 2007 Beta on the same machine as previous versions there will indeed be interactions (VBA6 runtime dll for instance). regards Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2, and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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Thanks Charles,
I would have hoped that by the Beta 2 they would have run through their huge suite of regression tests, but apparantly not. In my case 2007 did not corrupt the earlier versions, it was just a normal .xls corruption producing strange results -- back ups are important! Regards, Anthony Charles Williams wrote: I would suggest you wait for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which is supposed to arrive very soon, this will fix a large number of bugs. But even then you may face substantial rework because both the graphic layer and EUI have been rewritten and there are a number of VBA and object model incompatibilities. If you install XL 2007 Beta on the same machine as previous versions there will indeed be interactions (VBA6 runtime dll for instance). regards Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2, and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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Hi Anthony,
Have you had a chance to give this a try on B2TR? If you have, and are still having problems, it'd be great if you could send me a copy of the add-in, along with details as to what is broken so that we can take a look. Our goal is to have backwards-compatibility for solutions so if you are seeing breaks, we definitely want to know. If you can include: - the addin itself - detailed repro steps to see the error ....we'll have someone take a look. Also - we've only got a small window to fix bugs at this point, so timeliness is paramount here. Thanks much, Dan Excel Team "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Charles, I would have hoped that by the Beta 2 they would have run through their huge suite of regression tests, but apparantly not. In my case 2007 did not corrupt the earlier versions, it was just a normal .xls corruption producing strange results -- back ups are important! Regards, Anthony Charles Williams wrote: I would suggest you wait for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which is supposed to arrive very soon, this will fix a large number of bugs. But even then you may face substantial rework because both the graphic layer and EUI have been rewritten and there are a number of VBA and object model incompatibilities. If you install XL 2007 Beta on the same machine as previous versions there will indeed be interactions (VBA6 runtime dll for instance). regards Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2, and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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Upgrading Add-Ins to Excel 2007 -- Compatibility & Bugs
In my case, B2TR refuses to open (claiming "corruption" or "virus") an .xla
that B2 would open and run (sort of), and which exhibits no problems whatsoever in 2000, XP, or 2003 Jerry " wrote: Hi Anthony, Have you had a chance to give this a try on B2TR? If you have, and are still having problems, it'd be great if you could send me a copy of the add-in, along with details as to what is broken so that we can take a look. Our goal is to have backwards-compatibility for solutions so if you are seeing breaks, we definitely want to know. If you can include: - the addin itself - detailed repro steps to see the error ....we'll have someone take a look. Also - we've only got a small window to fix bugs at this point, so timeliness is paramount here. Thanks much, Dan Excel Team "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Charles, I would have hoped that by the Beta 2 they would have run through their huge suite of regression tests, but apparantly not. In my case 2007 did not corrupt the earlier versions, it was just a normal .xls corruption producing strange results -- back ups are important! Regards, Anthony Charles Williams wrote: I would suggest you wait for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which is supposed to arrive very soon, this will fix a large number of bugs. But even then you may face substantial rework because both the graphic layer and EUI have been rewritten and there are a number of VBA and object model incompatibilities. If you install XL 2007 Beta on the same machine as previous versions there will indeed be interactions (VBA6 runtime dll for instance). regards Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2, and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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-- Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Jerry W. Lewis" wrote in message ... In my case, B2TR refuses to open (claiming "corruption" or "virus") an .xla that B2 would open and run (sort of), and which exhibits no problems whatsoever in 2000, XP, or 2003 Jerry " wrote: Hi Anthony, Have you had a chance to give this a try on B2TR? If you have, and are still having problems, it'd be great if you could send me a copy of the add-in, along with details as to what is broken so that we can take a look. Our goal is to have backwards-compatibility for solutions so if you are seeing breaks, we definitely want to know. If you can include: - the addin itself - detailed repro steps to see the error ....we'll have someone take a look. Also - we've only got a small window to fix bugs at this point, so timeliness is paramount here. Thanks much, Dan Excel Team "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Charles, I would have hoped that by the Beta 2 they would have run through their huge suite of regression tests, but apparantly not. In my case 2007 did not corrupt the earlier versions, it was just a normal .xls corruption producing strange results -- back ups are important! Regards, Anthony Charles Williams wrote: I would suggest you wait for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which is supposed to arrive very soon, this will fix a large number of bugs. But even then you may face substantial rework because both the graphic layer and EUI have been rewritten and there are a number of VBA and object model incompatibilities. If you install XL 2007 Beta on the same machine as previous versions there will indeed be interactions (VBA6 runtime dll for instance). regards Charles ______________________ Decision Models FastExcel 2.3 now available Name Manager 4.0 now available www.DecisionModels.com "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ups.com... I am starting to port the Spreadsheet Detective to Excel 2007 Beta 2, and it has been a painful experience. For the first time since Excel 95, the new version will not simply run the previous add-in. I had in fact kept the add-in compatible with Excel 95 & and simply called newer functions as needed depending on the detected version. It is a credit to Microsoft that I could do that easily for all these years, although the then new drawing objects of Excel 97 required some ugly optimizations to work efficiently. But no more. I suspect that my use of the old XL95 drawing object interface to shapes is problematic, as is the XL95 workbook format which is supposed to be readable in 2007 and is sort of... So I used Excel 2000 to convert the spreadsheets to the newer XL97 .xls format. Works fine in Excel 97, 2000 & 2003, but 2007 complains that the spreadsheet is hoplessly corrupted. I am also highly suspicious that simply installing the 2007 Beta2 has destabalized the preivous versions of Excel on the same machine. I know about DLL hell, but this should still not happen. Does anyone have similar experiences? How have other add-in upgrades gone? (And this is all before worrying about the new sizes, ribbons etc.) Also, does anyone have a good utility to dump the VBA code out of a project? (It is a pity that Excel 2003 .xml does not support this.) Regards, Anthony |
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