How to open excel in form window using c#

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I have created a form where it has two buttons view and save . When i click on the view it should display the excel sheet in the form window and when i click save it should the excel sheet in sys .

Studied this Opening and Navigating Excel with C#[^]

wrote this for view button click event

Excel.Application excelApp = new Excel.ApplicationClass();
            excelApp.Visible = true;

It opens an excel application . Is it possible to open on form window .

Posted 26-Aug-11 3:58am

steven8Gerrard

Updated 26-Aug-11 4:24am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-08-26T04:19:00

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There is a way to use the WebBrowser control which you can add to your form and use to open an Office document. Please see this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243058[^].

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Posted 26-Aug-11 4:19am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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steven8Gerrard 27-Aug-11 3:24am

Tried it but i get this error .

Error 1 The type 'AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser' exists in both 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\AxSHDocVw.dll' and 'c:\Documents and Settings\IWI\Desktop\FormUItest\FormUItest\obj\Debug\AxInterop.SHDocVw.dll' C:\Documents and Settings\IWI\Desktop\FormUItest\FormUItest\Form1.Designer.cs 3295 FormUItest

Any method to overcome this one