Installing Excel on XPe

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I'm trying to install Excel on XPe SP2 and I keep getting the following error
toward the end of the install.

Error 1911. Could not register type library for file
C:\WINDOWS\System32\VEN2232.OLB. Contact your support personnel.

Any ideas how to fix this?
 
Although Office apps may in theory install and run on XP embedded provided
that you find all the required dependencies and include them in the build,
Office apps are not licensed to run on XPe since they're considered general
PC and development apps. If all what's needed is just to view Excel
sheets, Excel Viewers
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD011347961033.aspx) can be
installed on XPe; they have much less footprint and dependencies and
chances they'll install and run are much better than full Office app.

KS

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I probably should have mentioned in my last post that excel never needs to be
opened by the user in my application. The VB application only needs to be
able to open/save an excel file. Is there any way for the VB application to
access and execl object without having excel installed?
 
You need at least the automation object library for Excel which is the
excel app executable itself. So I don't think there is a way to do it
without installing Excel itself. If the VB application is going to be the
main line-of-business app (e.g. the main app that the end-user will be
interacting with most of the time), then I don't see a licensing violation
regarding the installation of Excel on the XPe device since it will be
required by the line-of-business app. So the remaining part is being able
to install it. You might want to run tools like regmon and filemon to track
it down to the missing component that's causing the installation error.

KS

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