Backward compatibility using excel interop in C#

Question

I am using an excel interop to open an excel file, edit and save it with some other name in some other location. For that I have used:

workbook.saveAs(newFileName)

But it is prompting in the application for compatibility like how it is used to prompt while saving .xls file in office 2007. I have to click on continue in the front end application in order to continue. How can it be resolved?

Thanks in advance, Sarath

Answer 1

There is an Application.DisplayAlerts property which you can set to False during your SaveAs operation (and then set back to True ).

Here are the details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel._application.displayalerts(v=office.11).aspx

Answer 2

... I'm not sure I 100% understand what it is you're experiencing, but if it's a notification box that appears, try putting this line before the Save command:

ExcelApp.DisplayAlerts = False

That should disable the alert from popping up....