Category Archives: .NET

Develop Excel Conference

The Develop Excel conference will take place in London on Thursday October the 18th 2018. It will be held at the Microsoft Reactor (70 Wilson Street London EC2A 2DB). Are you responsible for building Excel based Addins and Solutions? Develop … Continue reading

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Excel JavaScript API Part 1: Overview & Comparison

I have been spending time in the last few months experimenting with the new JavaScript Excel API. This is the first of a planned series of posts examining the JS-API from the point of view of an Excel Office developer. … Continue reading

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Writing Efficient VBA UDFs Part 15: Adding Intellisense to your UDFs

For several years people have been asking the Excel Dev team to add the capability to create Intellisense for UDFs to work the same way as native Excel functions. Well, now Govert van Drimmelen, author of the wonderful Excel DNA, … Continue reading

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Excel UDF Technology Choices – Snakes & ladders with VBA, VB6, .NET, C++, COM, XLL, Interop …

I develop a commercial Excel addin product, FastExcel, one component of which contains a number of UDFs. I have been planning and developing the next version of FastExcel for some time, and it probably won’t surprise you to hear that … Continue reading

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