Find bitness (32-bit/64-bit) from Excel Application object?
See the question and my original answer on StackOverflowThis code should give you the "bitness" of Excel.
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass();
if (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(app.HinstancePtr) == 8)
{
// excel 64-bit
}
else
{
// excel 32-bit
}
EDIT: here is another version that should work for previous versions of Excel as well. Just pass an ApplicationClass reference to it:
public static ExcelVersion GetExcelVersion(object applicationClass)
{
if (applicationClass == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("applicationClass");
PropertyInfo property = applicationClass.GetType().GetProperty("HinstancePtr", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public);
if (property == null)
return ExcelVersion.Excel;
return (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(property.GetValue(applicationClass, null)) == 8) ? ExcelVersion.Excel2010_64 : ExcelVersion.Excel2010_32;
}
public enum ExcelVersion
{
Excel, // before 2010, so 32 bits
Excel2010_32,
Excel2010_64
}