Format too old or invalid type library in Chinese Excel 2010

Question

Error came at Startup of Excel 2010 in Chinese MS Office .

Error is as followS 格式太旧或类型程序库无效 . (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80028018 (TYPE_E_INVDATAREAD) )

Please Assist ?

c#

ms-office

vsto

asked on Stack Overflow May 26, 2015 by

Harshal Bhamare • edited May 26, 2015 by

1 Answer

This is a well-known issue when automating Office applications. There are two possible ways to avoid the issue:

Use the late binding technology specifying the culture information when calling properties and methods, see Type.InvokeMember for more information.
Set the CultureInfo prior to calling any Excel properties or methods.

You can read more about that in the following articles (contains the same information):

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