Hello,
I'm currently investigating SharePoint for our company as a means to make Excel processing accessible through our web application without relying on the Office Interop DLL files. (our sysadmin doesnt want to install Office on the production server, for good reason)
I'm aware that Sharepoint has an Excel Webservice that can be enabled and used by the application. The problem, if it is a problem, is that I need to make a class that wraps all the logic for transforming an Excel into HTML.
So I need to add the references to this webservice to the application.
But what if we need to deploy the application with a customer that has no SharePoint server available, will this cause a problem in the application? We will use checks to make stuff visible and invisible depending on whether a parameter is set, but I'm looking for a means to ensure that I can for example add the required references at runtime when I need them for Sharepoint.
I hope the question is clear.