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Dim xlTmp As Excel.Application<br />
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&nbsp; Set xlTmp = New Excel.Application<br />
&nbsp; xlTmp.Workbooks.Open &quot;monexcel.xls&quot;
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Dim xlTmp As Excel.Application
 
  Set xlTmp = New Excel.Application
  xlTmp.Workbooks.Open "monexcel.xls"

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<pre><code id="code-20-39245247-1">Error	1	Type 'Excel.Application' is not defined.</code></pre>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;is what i'm getting I added the application under projects reference but still get the error.
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Error	1	Type 'Excel.Application' is not defined.

     is what i'm getting I added the application under projects reference but still get the error.

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What would be the proper code to launch an excel 2010 file from vb 2010? &nbsp; I have the file name in a variable just not sure of the proper way to program the process.
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What would be the proper code to launch an excel 2010 file from vb 2010?   I have the file name in a variable just not sure of the proper way to program the process.

Opening launching excel 2010 from VB 2010

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,