public void RunExample()
{
// start excel and turn off msg boxes
Excel.Application excelApplication = new Excel.Application();
excelApplication.DisplayAlerts = false;
// create a utils instance, not need for but helpful to keep the lines of code low
CommonUtils utils = new CommonUtils(excelApplication);
// add a new workbook
Excel.Workbook workBook = excelApplication.Workbooks.Add();
Excel.Worksheet workSheet = (Excel.Worksheet)workBook.Worksheets[1];
// draw back color and perform the BorderAround method
workSheet.Range("$B2:$B5").Interior.Color = utils.Color.ToDouble(Color.DarkGreen);
workSheet.Range("$B2:$B5").BorderAround(XlLineStyle.xlContinuous, XlBorderWeight.xlMedium, XlColorIndex.xlColorIndexAutomatic);
// draw back color and border the range explicitly
workSheet.Range("$D2:$D5").Interior.Color = utils.Color.ToDouble(Color.DarkGreen);
workSheet.Range("$D2:$D5").Borders[XlBordersIndex.xlInsideHorizontal].LineStyle = XlLineStyle.xlDouble;
workSheet.Range("$D2:$D5").Borders[XlBordersIndex.xlInsideHorizontal].Weight = 4;
workSheet.Range("$D2:$D5").Borders[XlBordersIndex.xlInsideHorizontal].Color = utils.Color.ToDouble(Color.Black);
workSheet.Cells[1, 1].Value = "We have 2 simple shapes created.";
string workbookFile = null;
if (workSheet.EntityIsAvailable("ExportAsFixedFormat"))
{
// save the sheet as PDF
workbookFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(HostApplication.RootDirectory, "Example10.pdf");
workSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat(XlFixedFormatType.xlTypePDF, workbookFile, XlFixedFormatQuality.xlQualityStandard);
}
else
{
// we are sorry - pdf export is not supported in Excel 2003 or below
workbookFile = utils.File.Combine(HostApplication.RootDirectory, "Example10", Excel.Tools.DocumentFormat.Normal);
workBook.SaveAs(workbookFile);
}
// close excel and dispose reference
excelApplication.Quit();
excelApplication.Dispose();
// show dialog for the user(you!)
HostApplication.ShowFinishDialog(null, workbookFile);
}