Writing Data From .Net to Excel Interrupted by User Opening Excel Window

Problem I have an application that generates financial reports in excel. After installing Office 2013, if a user opens excel while the application is running, the application returns a error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException with HRESULT: 0x800AC472 which interrupts the data from being written to the spreadsheet. After some research according to Microsoft this was done by design, the … More Writing Data From .Net to Excel Interrupted by User Opening Excel Window