C# - Excel Number Formatting Issue with International settings

Question

I am trying to write to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet using c# 3.5. However I am unable to get this to function correctly across different country settings. The country settings

Answer 1

Excel used over COM has several restrictions most important ones to respect are:

• Use the en-US culture (LCID bug)
• Call all the methods from one and the same Thread (set to the right culture "en-US")

Then you'll get rid of most sporadic crashes regarding Excel automation & localization.