Word and Excel not installed on machine

[Mythos44]

Hail to All,

I was wondering is there any way to open and read and write and save to Excel and word documents in a program if the machine that is being run on does not have either of thies apps installed. Are there files that I can include in my application that it could be worked on in my application and not need word or excel?

Thanks for all your help

Mythos

[kleinma]

No you will need these programs on the system.

[weirddemon]

I don't know the code, but there is a way to see if the computer your application is being installed on has those applications installed.

I'm sure you can Google it and find it.

[Hack]

I use something like this

Imports Microsoft.Win32
Public Class Form1
Public Function IsAppInstalled(ByVal AppName As String) As Boolean
        Dim strSubKey As String = String.Empty
        Select Case AppName.ToUpper
            Case "ACCESS"
                strSubKey = "Access.Application"
            Case "EXCEL"
                strSubKey = "Excel.Application"
            Case "WORD"
                strSubKey = "Word.Application"
        End Select
 
        Dim objKey As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot
 
        Dim objSubKey As RegistryKey = objKey.OpenSubKey(strSubKey.ToUpper)
 
        Return Not objSubKey Is Nothing
 
        objKey.Close()
 
End Function
  
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If IsAppInstalled("Excel") = True Then
            MessageBox.Show("Yep, it is here")
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("Nope...you gotta install it.")
        End If
End Sub
End Class