Excel Functions in F# Language

Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by inglor on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:21PM (#34793602)

I work on Excel and this is really cool and I’ll share it with the rest of the engineers.

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Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by inglor on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:44PM (#34793995)

Team says it’s cool and already possible with different us through

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/ex...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...

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Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by ripley12 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:38PM (#34798942)

I mean... sorta. It's not easy to write a Office add-in just using the C API, and when I tried a year or two ago the only example code I could find was like 20 years old and all documentation was heavily pushing people toward the newer JS-based add-ins.

I quit that job because the extensibility story for Excel was so painful (but they had good business reasons for being in the space), sigh.

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Re:Excel Functions in F# Language by airstrike on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:40PM (#34799340)

Writing an XLL add-in is a terrible pain I wish on no one at all. The documentation is all over the place, terribly outdated and generally an aggravating process to try to learn it from scratch

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