Repost : Urgent : Programmatically add a COM object from code-behind into a web form

J

John

Hi all,

I did post this about 10 hours ago thinking I would have received an answer
now but it is quite urgent.

How do I add a COM object to a web form?

I notice there's a primary interop assembly for Office web components and
what I'm trying to do here is to create a PivotTable object (which is fine)
but then I want to add it to a web page (e.g.
Page.Controls.Add(COMPivotTable)).

I receive the following error message but don't understand what I need to do
to correct this:
"Unable to cast COM object of type
'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Owc11.PivotTableClass' to class type
'System.Web.UI.Control'. Instances of types that represent COM components
cannot be cast to types that do not represent COM components; however they
can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports
QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface."

Any ideas?

Regards
John.
 
K

Ken Cox

Hi John,

You're mixing client-side code and server-side (ASP.NET) code in a way that
doesn't work.

What you want is to have the Office component appear inside Internet
Explorer, right?

Therefore, your page needs to output client-side script that will use the
PivotTable object that must already exist on the user's machine. Here's how
the resulting browser code might look:

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body>

<p>
<object classid="clsid:0002E55A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"
id="PivotTable1">
<param name="XMLData" value="&lt;xml
xmlns:x=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:excel&quot;&gt;
&lt;x:pivotTable&gt;
&lt;x:OWCVersion&gt;11.0.0.6555 &lt;/x:OWCVersion&gt;
&lt;x:DisplayScreenTips/&gt;
&lt;x:CubeProvider&gt;msolap.2&lt;/x:CubeProvider&gt;
&lt;x:CacheDetails/&gt;
&lt;x:pivotView&gt;
&lt;x:IsNotFiltered/&gt;
&lt;/x:pivotView&gt;
&lt;/x:pivotTable&gt;
&lt;/xml&gt;">
<table width='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'
height='8'><tr><td bgColor='#336699' height='25' width='10%'>&nbsp;</td><td
bgColor='#666666'width='85%'><font face='Tahoma' color='white'
size='4'><b>&nbsp; Missing: Microsoft Office Web
Components</b></font></td></tr><tr><td bgColor='#cccccc'
width='15'>&nbsp;</td><td bgColor='#cccccc' width='500px'><br> <font
face='Tahoma' size='2'>This page requires the Microsoft Office Web
Components.<p align='center'> <a href='Z:/files/owc11/setup.exe'>Click here
to install Microsoft Office Web Components.</a>.</p></font><p><font
face='Tahoma' size='2'>This page also requires Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.01 or higher.</p><p align='center'><a
href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm'> Click here to
install the latest Internet
Explorer</a>.</font><br>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></object>
</p>

</body>

</html>
 

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