Tag Archives: C++

Using Regasm.exe

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

If you work through the process described in the previous post Visual Studio will create two files (ALMatrixLib.tlb and ALMatrixLib.dll) that will automatically be registered so that the Excel VBA routines will be able to use them.  On the other hand if … Continue reading →

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Compiled Matrix Functions for Excel

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

This is a follow on from the previous post, showing how the C# version of the ALGLIB maths library can be accessed from Excel, with very little additional coding.  The download file, Matrixdll-c#.zip includes compiled .dll and .tlb files which can be used … Continue reading →

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Links to link VBA to C#

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

If you search the Internet for information on how to link Excel VBA to C# you will find thousands, if not millions, of links with details of how to connect to Excel from C#, but very few about going the … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 29: Using VBA – linking to C

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

The final few days of the daily download series will be dealing with the use of VBA, starting with linking to C (and C++).  This was covered in: Linking Excel to C Linking Excel to C – 2 Linking Excel … Continue reading →

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Excel, ALGLIB, C# and ExcelDNA

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Having just responded to a comment, saying I would be focussing on Add-in Express, rather than ExcelDNA, I have just found a blog post about using the ALGLIB C# routines in Excel, with the aid of ExcelDNA: Parcell’s Posts; Tutorial: … Continue reading →

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Xll add-ins; are they worth the trouble?

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

As regular readers will know, I occasionally delve into compiling code in C++, or even Fortran, as dlls and link to them with a short piece of VBA to communicate between the spreadsheet and the compiled code.  I have also … Continue reading →

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Compiled AlgLib Matrix Functions for Excel

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

This post describes a series of matrix functions compiled from the AlgLib library code (covered in previous posts) as a dll that can be called from Excel VBA, and used as User Defined Functions (UDFs).  A spreadsheet containing the necessary VBA … Continue reading →

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