Excel AddIn with TCP/IP socket communication

Cindy M.

2006-10-14 10:24:14 UTC

Hi Hans,

Post by Hans Stoessel
We like to develop an Excel AddIn who communicate via TCP/IP socket (receive
data) and fill up a table with this data. I have already developed an AddIn
and I wrote C++ applications who communicate via TCP/IP socket.
- Is that possible in an AddIn?
- Can I write the TCP/IP communication in C/C++ and use this in my AddIn?
- Is this a must to write the TCP/IP communicatiuon in C/C++ or is htere
another possibility?

Ahhhh. This newsgroup is targeted at WORD and VBA - says so in the name. You
need to go elsewhere for this question. The office.developer.addins newsgroup
is a possibility, although I'm not sure you'll find the help you require there.
The best place is a group related to the programming language you use to create
your addin. If that's C/C++, then that's where you need to ask.

If it's a VB-language, then a classical VB group is probably your best bet for
getting information on how to use TCP/IP technology in your addin. For a .NET
Framework language, the Base Class Library forum would probably be the best
place to start.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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