darknessomi / darknessomi/excellibrary
Generating excel files does not work on windows 8.1 excel 2013
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- C#
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Description
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On windows 8.1 execute the test project in svn
2. modify `SimpleTest.SimpleReadWriteTest` to write the first file to
c:\temp\sample.xls
3. Using Excel 2013 try to open sample.xls.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The file should open with a single worksheet and two cells. It does not open at
all.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Excel Library 1.2011.7.30
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by gmauer@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 4:34
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Research direction
Start by running the test project on Windows 8.1 and modifying SimpleTest.SimpleReadWriteTest to write c:\temp\sample.xls, then open it with Excel 2013. Compare the generated file with the expected result: one worksheet containing two cells, and confirm that sample.xls opens successfully.
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- csharp
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- tooling
- Issue type
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