Pack ZIP into XLL?

[Lukas]

Hi,

I would like to ship an external file (ZIP) together with the XLL to be available and used by the addin.

How would you do this?

Thank you already

Best,

Lukas

[Govert van Drimmelen]

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Hi Lukas,

I would suggest storing extra files into the C# .dll library as resources.

You might have a look at this old article: Packaging and Deploying Resources in .NET Apps | Microsoft Docs

Or the current docs here Resources in .NET apps | Microsoft Docs, but you'll see there are various ways to do it.

Embedding into the .xll file in the same way as the Excel-DNA assemblies is not great, since there is no public API to get them out from there and I consider it an implementation detail.

But you could probably figure out those calls from the source too.

-Govert

[Lukas]

Thank you Govert, via resources works well.