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WorksheetBase.Creator Property

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2010

Gets a value that indicates the application in which the worksheet was created.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities.dll)

Syntax

public XlCreator Creator { get; }

Property Value

Type: XlCreator
If the worksheet was created in Excel, this property returns the string XCEL, which is equivalent to the hexadecimal number 5843454C.

Remarks

This property is designed to be used in Microsoft Office Excel for the Macintosh, where each application has a four-character creator code. For example, Excel has the creator code XCEL.

Examples

The following code example uses the Creator property to display whether the current worksheet was created in Microsoft Office Excel.

This example is for a document-level customization.

private void ShowCreator()
{
    if (this.Creator == Excel.XlCreator.xlCreatorCode)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("This worksheet was created in " +
            "Microsoft Office Excel.");
    }
    else
    {
        MessageBox.Show("This worksheet was not created in " +
            "Microsoft Office Excel.");
    }
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

Reference

WorksheetBase Class

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Namespace

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