VB.net Excel ExportAsFixedFormat fails Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT))

Question

I am trying to write a very simple VB.net app which would open an excel file and save it as excel.

The environment I am working on is as follows:

• Windows 1

Answer 1

Right! Thank you to all that tried to help. By reading your responses I kept trying till I figured out the issue.

It appears that ExportAsFixedFormat doesn't like Excel sheets with formulas in. To work around this issue, I just created a new blank worksheet and copied and pasted (values only) the content from my main sheet into it. This seems to work perfectly. I then automated this in my code as follows:

    Dim xlworksheet_static As Excel.Worksheet = xlWorkBook.Worksheets(2)
    xlWorkSheet.Range("A1", "H35").Copy()
    xlworksheet_static.Activate()
    xlworksheet_static.Range("A1", "H35").Select()
    xlworksheet_static.PasteSpecial(Excel.XlPasteType.xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats)

    xlworksheet_static.ExportAsFixedFormat(Type:=Excel.XlFixedFormatType.xlTypePDF, Filename:=
     "d:\test\test.pdf", Quality:=Excel.XlFixedFormatQuality.xlQualityStandard _
    , IncludeDocProperties:=True, IgnorePrintAreas:=True, OpenAfterPublish:=
    False)

Probably not the most straight forward way but I couldn't get it to work otherwise!

Answer 2

Save it as .PDF like that:

xlWorkSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat(XlFixedFormatType.xlTypePDF, "d:\test\test.pdf")