Hi Tim,
Thanks for your posting!
From your description, I understand that you want to tell if the Excel is
lauched by double click a xls file or type Excel.exe to execute it directly
from within the Excel Com Addin.
Have I fully understood you? If there is anything I misunderstood, please
feel free to let me know.
Based on my research, so far from the Addin method, it did not provide such
a parameter to tell from the two behavior.
Public Sub OnConnection(ByVal application As Object, ByVal connectMode As
Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode, ByVal addInInst As Object, ByRef custom As
System.Array) Implements Extensibility.IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection
The last parameter custom will only tell if the Excel is lauched by any of
the three possibility.
1. By User(double click xls or run excel.exe)
2. By OLE( open an xls file in IE or other activex document container)
3. By Automation(Use Code,e.g CreateObject to launch Excel)
But for the two scenarios you care, it will always return 1 means, By User.
So why you need to detect that? Maybe there is a workaround.
Based on my research, for the two scenario the code below may differ.
applicationObject.ActiveWorkBook.Path.ToString()
If we launch Excel.exe, it will open a blank workbook, and now the Path is
empty because we have not saved it.
If we double click a xls file, the Path will be the path to the physical
path of the xls.
So that may give you some hint.
But the method have many limitations, if we call it too early, the
ActiveWorkBook is empty.
You may have a try according to your concrete scenario, if you still have
any concern, please feel free to post here.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Community Support
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| How do I determine if excel was launch by double clicking a workbook, or
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| running the excel.exe.
| I need this info within my vb.net com addin.
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| Thanks
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