3 posts tagged with "release"

Excel-DNA version 1.1 is now available on NuGet and as a direct download from GitHub. The easiest way to install is with Visual Studio’s NuGet package manager (package ExcelDna.AddIn) – a ‘ReadMe’ file with further instructions will then be displayed. From the Package Manager Console:

Install-Package ExcelDna.AddIn

Excel-DNA 1.1 is expected to be the final version to support older .NET (<4.5) and Excel (<2007) releases.

Excel-DNA version 1.1 implements workarounds for two recent changes in Excel behaviour:

• RTD servers based on ExcelRtdServer, and streaming functions based on IExcelObservable stopped updating after recent (early 2020) Excel updates.
• When loaded into an elevated Excel process (running As Administrator) the on-demand COM registration (used for ribbon and CTP loading) started failing (mid 2020).

The update also introduces strong-naming of the Excel-DNA assemblies (thanks to @augustoproiete)

Please post any issues you run into to the Google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/exceldna)

To make a donation to the project, or to arrange for a corporate support agreement that lets you steer the future of Excel-DNA, please visit the Excel-DNA Support page.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm towards the Excel-DNA project!

Excel-DNA version 1.0 is now available on NuGet and as a direct download from GitHub. The easiest way to install is with Visual Studio’s NuGet package manager (package ExcelDna.AddIn) – a ‘ReadMe’ file with further instructions will then be displayed. From the Package Manager Console:

Install-Package ExcelDna.AddIn

The Excel-DNA 1.0.x series (this version with minor fixes) will be the final version to support older .NET (<4.0) and Excel (<2007) releases.

Version 1.0 is essentially the same as the long-overdue version 0.35. The update includes a number of bug fixes as well as improvements to the build-time Visual Studio integration:

• Improve build tasks – more reliable clean-up and debugger detection
• Improve RTD and async QueueAsMacro reliability
• Improve install process of ExcelDna.AddIn NuGet package (now requires NuGet 2.5) (thanks to @caioproiete)
• Change how ExcelDnaUtil.Application works in Protected View – try harder but don’t cache
• Call UnhandledExceptionHandler for macros (ExcelCommands) too
• Add XML schema for .dna file (thanks to @caioproiete)
• Add option to pack .pdb files (thanks to @lanfeust69)
• Fix exception handling from native async functions (thanks to @ittegrat)

Please post any issues you run into to the Google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/exceldna)

To make a donation to the project, or to arrange for a corporate support agreement that lets you influence the future of Excel-DNA, please visit the Excel-DNA Support page.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm towards the Excel-DNA project!

I've posted a final release of Excel-DNA version 0.32 to CodePlex (https://exceldna.codeplex.com/releases/view/119190) and the NuGet package repository (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Excel-DNA).

Excel-DNA 0.32 consolidates a large number of bug fixes and improvements that have accumulated over the last year. In particular, a number of edge cases that affect Excel-DNA add-ins under Excel 2013 have been addressed.

Native asynchronous functions, available under Excel 2010 and later, are now supported. Runtime registration of delegate functions and external retrieval of registration details will allow development of extension features without requiring changes to the Excel-DNA core runtime - see the ExcelDna.CustomRegistration project for examples of the dynamic registration: https://github.com/Excel-DNA/CustomRegistration

Excel-DNA 0.32 introduces one breaking change: integer parameter conversions are modified to be consistent with VBA. Fractional values passed to functions with integer parameters are converted using the round-to-even convention - as is the case for VBA functions. This issue is discussed in more detail at http://excel-dna.net/2014/05/03/excel-dna-0-32-breaking-changes-to-integer-and-boolean-parameter-handling/

See the Distribution\ChangeLog.txt file for a complete list of changes in this version.

As always, I greatly appreciate any feedback on this version, and on Excel-DNA in general. Any comments or questions are welcome on the Google group or by contacting me directly.

To ensure future development of Excel-DNA, please make a donation via PayPal or arrange for a corporate support agreement. See http://excel-dna.net/support/ for details.