I'm currently writing about dynamic typing, and I'm giving an example of Excel interop. I've hardly done any Office interop before, and it shows. The MSDN Office Interop tutorial for C# 4 uses the _Worksheet interface, but there's also a Worksheet interface. I've no idea what the difference is.

In my absurdly simple demo app (shown below) either works fine - but if best practice dictates one or the other, I'd rather use it appropriately.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

class DynamicExcel
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var app = new Excel.Application { Visible = true };
        app.Workbooks.Add();

        // Can use Excel._Worksheet instead here. Which is better?
        Excel.Worksheet workSheet = app.ActiveSheet;

        Excel.Range start = workSheet.Cells[1, 1];
        Excel.Range end = workSheet.Cells[1, 20];
        workSheet.get_Range(start, end).Value2 = Enumerable.Range(1, 20)
                                                           .ToArray();
    }
}

I'm trying to avoid doing a full deep-dive into COM or Office interoperability, just highlighting the new features of C# 4 - but I don't want to do anything really, really dumb.

(There may be something really, really dumb in the code above as well, in which case please let me know. Using separate start/end cells instead of just "A1:T1" is deliberate - it's easier to see that it's genuinely a range of 20 cells. Anything else is probably accidental.)

So, should I use _Worksheet or Worksheet, and why?

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