[Mono-dev] creating excel files

[Quandary]

mono 2.10 works fine on ubuntu

See my thread here on how to compile it yourselfs (just replace 2.8 with 
2.10):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1591370
It takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour on a moderately modern computer.
An ideal in-between supper task.

I also tried EPPLUS on Linux several months ago, and there seems to be a 
bug in mono, something with the using directive and disposing too soon 
(on mono 2.6.7).
As I didn't have 2.8 then (freshly installed ubuntu on a new computer), 
I haven't filed a bug report, since it might have been already corrected.
It works fine on Windows, though.

You can also try
http://excellite.codeplex.com/

It also works fine outside of Silverlight, when you add the following 
references:
PresentationCore
PresentationFramwork
WindowsBase

See my fixes here:
http://excellite.codeplex.com/workitem/175

It's the only FOSS .NET library I've found that's able to write .XLS 
files in BIFF format that can be opened with Excel 2010.
I don't know whether it runs on mono.
If you try, let me know the result.

I also have a console application for ExcelLite, if you want it, let me 
know (might save you 30 mins.).





Am 20.02.2011 18:57, schrieb eng. Ahmed Youssef:
> Hi,
>
> I need to create excel files from mono under Linux, and so I tried 
> two approaches:
>
> 1. Using the library EPPlus which works great under .net but not mono 
> (I tried 2.6.7 and later 2.10) although as far as I can tel from Moma 
> the only problem is the crypto module since it P/Invokes, It crashes 
> in the library zipsharp in System.IO.Packaging... the question here is 
> how do I debug into the mono library to discover what exactly is going 
> on in order to fix the library or patch the framework or whatever? the 
> tutorials says that after I GIT the source, the make process could 
> take 45 mns to 2hrs .... so I am kinda lost here! what exactly is the 
> best route to debug the framework library... I could try to copy the 
> files into my solution... but that could get tedious in case of lots 
> of dependencies so what is the best route to take?
>
> 2. I used CLI_UNO which works nicely in console, but when run from 
> mono 2.6.7 webapp in xsp2, it raises exceptions and fails
> "Ambiguous matching in method resolution" while setting the Thread 
> culture (which happens outside my code)
>  that happens even when xsp is run with sudo.... are there any knows 
> limitations between xsp and console that could prevent the code from 
> running?
> In case it matters to someone, here is the line that crashes:
>     componentLoader = 
> (XComponentLoader)multiServiceFactory.createInstance 
> ("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop");
>
>
> Another question: Are there any known plans by anybody to port mono 
> 2.10 to Ubuntu or the easiest way to stay up-to-date is to move to 
> Opensuse?
>
> Thanks a lot for the help....
>
>
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