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creating excel spreadsheets server side dynamically

Hi there,

I am trying to find out what the best way of creating an excel
spreadsheet is, this will need to be done dynamically by an aspx website
on the server side.

The main way would be to use the Excel com object that is available when
you have excel installed, however since this is done server side I need
to be sure that it won't generate any dialog box error messages. There
are also concerns about threading.

Most of the examples I can find on the web seem to be quite old, has
anyone recently done this who could share their thoughts ?.

Any help appreciated.

Regards.
Jun 5 '07
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Mark Rae wrote:
"eps" <ep*@mailinator .comwrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP02.phx.gbl. ..
>That is certainly one option, however I was interested in doing some
formatting in the excel file. Its supposed to be a kind of order form
so making it look good would be beneficial. There are many different
types of product though so it needs to be able to be generated
dynamically.

Did you see my reply to Andy Burchill...?
Yes I did, thanks for replying. I take your point about Microsoft not
supporting creating them server side.

Regards.
Jun 5 '07 #11
"Andy Burchill" <an**********@c lara.co..ukwrot e in message
news:11******** ********@iris.u k.clara.net...
I had already come across this whilst searching on the web, I think this
is almost exactly what I want as I have already prototyped my app and it
works well.

The major drawback that I can see is that you need Excel 2003 or later to
read an XML spreadsheet that it produces. (An the free Excel Viewer app
does not seem to want to display them at all).
Hmm...

Obviously, Aspose creates "native" Excel files, but it isn't free...
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