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Excel Addin Development Environment

If I want to build excel addin with C ++. Is there an open source / freeware alternative for the Visual Studio development environment?

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Dean

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To interact with excel, you can use to check XLW . I am not sure about the current development status or updated for the current excel version. With excel 12, they added some features for large datasets, more rows and columns, and a multi-threaded calculation engine.

As for compiling the code, you can use MinGW . You can also download express editions of Visual Studio if this is for you. If you work on a commercial basis, just get Visual Studio. It's good.

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Free? What about Microsoft Visual C ++ Express Edition ?

The former Borland C ++ Builder compiler is also available for free download. However, not sure about the version, and you will need some way to edit / debug.

Then there is something available in Eclipse

There are many more. See this list.

Do not forget the Excel SDK and make sure that you know the changes that appeared in Excel 2007 ...

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