Issue generating excel interface code in VS 2022

[funkmonkey]

I'm trying to write some code to interact with an Excel workbook, but so far I have landed flat on my face. Out of the gate I am getting errors from the compiler even though the code is nearly a one for one copy from the web.

What am I doing wrong?

 Option Explicit On

Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Imports Workbook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook  ,_ I added this.
Imports Worksheet = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet ,_ I added this.
Imports System.IO





Public Class ClsExcel

    Private m_szWBPath As String
    Private xlApp As Excel.Application <-Does not like

    'Dim xlWorkBook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook
    'Dim xlWorkSheet As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet

    Public Function CreateExcelObject(ByVal szFileName As String) As Object

        m_szWBPath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

        xlApp = New Excel.Application <- Does not like

Thanks for the help.

[2kaud]

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