Is there a better way (besides COM) to remote-control Excel?

Question

I\'m working on a regression-testing tool that will validate a very large number of Excel spreadsheets. At the moment I control them via COM from a Python script using the l

Answer 1

There is no way that completely bypasses COM. You can use VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), which has nice .NET wrappers on the COM objects, but it is still COM underneath.