Programmaticall y creating Excel spreadsheets in ASP.NET

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

[CT]

Hmm, one way is to have a grid control that can export to an Excel sheet,
but otherwise you need a third-party control that does it for you. Here are
some links:
http://www.infragistics.com/products/grids.asp
http://www.devdirect.com/ALL/GRID_PCAT_1855.aspx
--
Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
"Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

[Don]

Hi Raoul,

Our Spread for Web Forms is a spreadsheet component that will import
and export Excel files, as well as many other features. Here's the
link for more info if you're interested in downloading a trial:
http://www.fpoint.com/netproducts/spreadweb/spread.html

- Donald
FarPoint
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Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

[Curt_C [MVP]]

have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?

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Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

[George Ter-Saakov]

I belive the ContentType header will only help when you already have an
Excel file to send.

If you do not want to install MS Office then you have to look for third
party solution which will write an excel file from scratch.
It will be much cheaper to buy one than to write it yourself.

George.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
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have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

[Curt_C [MVP]]

build a table in html, set the content type to excel (lookup the exact
phrase) and your page should generate as a spreadsheet, and the client will
execute their spreadsheet app or be prompted for download.

That's what I believe will work

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:OT******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...

I belive the ContentType header will only help when you already have an
Excel file to send.

If you do not want to install MS Office then you have to look for third
party solution which will write an excel file from scratch.
It will be much cheaper to buy one than to write it yourself.

George.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

[George Ter-Saakov]

Cool. I did not know that.
Is it working with Excel 2000? Or XP only?

George.
"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

build a table in html, set the content type to excel (lookup the exact
phrase) and your page should generate as a spreadsheet, and the client will execute their spreadsheet app or be prompted for download.

That's what I believe will work

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:OT******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...

I belive the ContentType header will only help when you already have an
Excel file to send.

If you do not want to install MS Office then you have to look for third
party solution which will write an excel file from scratch.
It will be much cheaper to buy one than to write it yourself.

George.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
> ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.
>
> Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Raoul.

[Bob Cummings]

Raoul Snyman wrote:

Hi,

I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.

Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?

Thanks in advance,

Raoul.

Hi Raoul

We ran into the same situation with our senior class project. We
cheated and used some vb script to solve the problem.

If you are going to have excel on the client machine and it is a local
intranet (for security settings) you can display the data as a datagrid.
And then use some vbscript to convert the datagrid to an excel spread
sheet. The only problem we ran across was having to set the security
settings on IE to prompt for initialize and script active X security
setting.

Otherwise one of my team member was suggesting the same thing as Curt.

Bob

[Patrice]

Was possible since at least Excel 97 (much slower though to convert a big
file). With later version you could also probably use the XML schema used to
save Excel files though doing this yourself may still be overkill compared
with buying a component.

Patrice

"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> a écrit dans le message de
news:ec******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

Cool. I did not know that.
Is it working with Excel 2000? Or XP only?

George.
"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

build a table in html, set the content type to excel (lookup the exact
phrase) and your page should generate as a spreadsheet, and the client

will

execute their spreadsheet app or be prompted for download.

That's what I believe will work

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:OT******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...

I belive the ContentType header will only help when you already have an Excel file to send.

If you do not want to install MS Office then you have to look for third party solution which will write an excel file from scratch.
It will be much cheaper to buy one than to write it yourself.

George.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..
> have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?
>
> --
> Curt Christianson
> Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
> Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
>
>
> "Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
> news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
> > ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.
> >
> > Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Raoul.
>
>

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Oh, and .DOC types (by specifying word) will work as well, for those
interested, or rather it should :}

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:ec******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

Cool. I did not know that.
Is it working with Excel 2000? Or XP only?

George.
"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:ep******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

build a table in html, set the content type to excel (lookup the exact
phrase) and your page should generate as a spreadsheet, and the client

will

execute their spreadsheet app or be prompted for download.

That's what I believe will work

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"George Ter-Saakov" <no****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:OT******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...

I belive the ContentType header will only help when you already have an Excel file to send.

If you do not want to install MS Office then you have to look for third party solution which will write an excel file from scratch.
It will be much cheaper to buy one than to write it yourself.

George.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..
> have you looked at the content type setting in the page declaration?
>
> --
> Curt Christianson
> Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
> Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
>
>
> "Raoul Snyman" <ra**********@p sitek.com> wrote in message
> news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to be able to programatically create excel spreadsheets in
> > ASP.NET (C#), WITHOUT having MS Office on the server.
> >
> > Does anybody have any advice/links/whatever for me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Raoul.
>
>