Saving web page as Excel spreadsheet

[Mark]

I have a web page with a GridView that displays data from a SqlDataSource
component.

I need to allow the user to click a button and have this data delivered to
them in a .xls file that they can save to their local machine.

Is the a way to do this with .NET or will I need a third party component?

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Best regards
Mark

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

There are a couple of ways.

1. Change MIME type to Excel and display
2. Use a third party library like ExcelWriter

It depends on how much funcationality of Excel you need.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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>I have a web page with a GridView that displays data from a SqlDataSource
component.

I need to allow the user to click a button and have this data delivered to
them in a .xls file that they can save to their local machine.

Is the a way to do this with .NET or will I need a third party component?

--
Best regards
Mark