excel-d v0.0.1 - D API to write functions callable from Excel
Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 21 02:34:37 PDT 2017
On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 00:25:46 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> On 3/20/17 4:09 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/excel-d
>>
>> This dub package allows D code to be called from Excel. It uses
>> compile-time reflection to register the user's code in an XLL
>> (a DLL
>> loaded by Excel) so no boilerplate is necessary. Not even
>> `DllMain`! It
>> works like this:
>
> If I wanted to replace our horrifying web queries from Excel
> with this, I'm assuming I could? That would be awesome.
>
> -Steve
Sure, you can do whatever you want as long as you can write it in
D ;)
The only thing to really watch out for is blocking the UI thread
if your function takes too long. And spinning up new threads in
the XLL itself didn't work out for me in the slightest.
Atila
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