Reading/Writing from/to Excel from Visual C++.NET 2005

Hi axnst2,

 I have got a solution for your probelm. Actually I am also searching for same solution.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/BasicExcel.asp

From above site.. download the "Download demo project - 80 Kb"
It has 4 files
Use only BasicExcelVC6.cpp and BasicExcelVC6.hpp

For main function use the following code..in separate cpp file. Build them using VC6.0. Create one excel sheet by name example1.xls in your directory. It will work.

#include <BasicExcel.hpp>
using namespace YExcel;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
      BasicExcel e;

      // Load a workbook with one sheet, display its contents and save into another file.
      e.Load("example1.xls");      
      BasicExcelWorksheet* sheet1 = e.GetWorksheet("Sheet1");
      if (sheet1)
      {
            size_t maxRows = sheet1->GetTotalRows();
            size_t maxCols = sheet1->GetTotalCols();
            cout << "Dimension of " << sheet1->GetAnsiSheetName() << " (" << maxRows << ", " << maxCols << ")" << endl;

            printf("          ");
            for (size_t c=0; c<maxCols; ++c) printf("%10d", c+1);
            cout << endl;

            for (size_t r=0; r<maxRows; ++r)
            {
                  printf("%10d", r+1);
                  for (size_t c=0; c<maxCols; ++c)
                  {
                        BasicExcelCell* cell = sheet1->Cell(r,c);
                        switch (cell->Type())
                        {
                              case BasicExcelCell::UNDEFINED:
                                    printf("          ");
                                    break;

                              case BasicExcelCell::INT:
                                    printf("%10d", cell->GetInteger());
                                    break;

                              case BasicExcelCell::DOUBLE:
                                    printf("%10.6lf", cell->GetDouble());
                                    break;

                              case BasicExcelCell::STRING:
                                    printf("%10s", cell->GetString());
                                    break;

                              case BasicExcelCell::WSTRING:
                                    wprintf(L"%10s", cell->GetWString());
                                    break;
                        }
                  }
                  cout << endl;
            }
      }
      cout << endl;
      e.SaveAs("example2.xls");

      // Create a new workbook with 2 worksheets and write some contents.
      e.New(2);
      e.RenameWorksheet("Sheet1", "Test1");
      BasicExcelWorksheet* sheet = e.GetWorksheet("Test1");
      BasicExcelCell* cell;
      if (sheet)
      {
            for (size_t c=0; c<4; ++c)
            {
                  cell = sheet->Cell(0,c);
                  cell->Set((int)c);
            }

            cell = sheet->Cell(1,3);
            cell->SetDouble(3.141592654);

            sheet->Cell(1,4)->SetString("Test str1");
            sheet->Cell(2,0)->SetString("Test str2");
            sheet->Cell(2,5)->SetString("Test str1");

            sheet->Cell(4,0)->SetDouble(1.1);
            sheet->Cell(4,1)->SetDouble(2.2);
            sheet->Cell(4,2)->SetDouble(3.3);
            sheet->Cell(4,3)->SetDouble(4.4);
            sheet->Cell(4,4)->SetDouble(5.5);

            sheet->Cell(4,4)->EraseContents();
      }

      sheet = e.AddWorksheet("Test2", 1);
      sheet = e.GetWorksheet(1);
      if (sheet)
      {
            sheet->Cell(1,1)->SetDouble(1.1);
            sheet->Cell(2,2)->SetDouble(2.2);
            sheet->Cell(3,3)->SetDouble(3.3);
            sheet->Cell(4,4)->SetDouble(4.4);
            sheet->Cell(70,2)->SetDouble(5.5);
      }
      e.SaveAs("example3.xls");

      // Load the newly created sheet and display its contents
      e.Load("example3.xls");

      size_t maxSheets = e.GetTotalWorkSheets();
      cout << "Total number of worksheets: " << e.GetTotalWorkSheets() << endl;
      for (size_t i=0; i<maxSheets; ++i)
      {
            BasicExcelWorksheet* sheet = e.GetWorksheet(i);
            if (sheet)
            {
                  size_t maxRows = sheet->GetTotalRows();
                  size_t maxCols = sheet->GetTotalCols();
                  cout << "Dimension of " << sheet->GetAnsiSheetName() << " (" << maxRows << ", " << maxCols << ")" << endl;

                  if (maxRows>0)
                  {
                        printf("          ");
                        for (size_t c=0; c<maxCols; ++c) printf("%10d", c+1);
                        cout << endl;
                  }

                  for (size_t r=0; r<maxRows; ++r)
                  {
                        printf("%10d", r+1);
                        for (size_t c=0; c<maxCols; ++c)
                        {
                              cout << setw(10) << *(sheet->Cell(r,c));      // Another way of printing a cell content.                        
                        }
                        cout << endl;
                  }
                  if (i==0)
                  {
                        ofstream f("example4.csv");
                        sheet->Print(f, ',', '\"');      // Save the first sheet as a CSV file.
                        f.close();
                  }
            }
            cout << endl;
      }
      return 0;
}

Thanks,
Sreenath