> And COM/OLE/ActiveX components [] could have been used just as easily from Delphi I wanted to use Excel from within Delphi - I wasted more than a few weeks a

> And COM/OLE/ActiveX components [] could have been used just as easily from Delphi I wanted to use Excel from within Delphi - I wasted more than a few weeks and ultimately failed. I always suspected that the COM/OLE integration had problems with some of the advanced features I was trying to use (I was trying to do something rather complicated). Plus the documentation and support was lacking for Delphi - Microsoft best supports Microsoft tools. I did use Delphi and COM successfully in many other situations but that one failure really soured me towards COM and Delphi together. I am typically capable of making complex integrations work, so I was surprised to fail.