excel

[kalaivanan]

hi,
i did not the office version of the system in which the application is
going to be deployed.
is there any way of opening an excel file which is office independent.
My requirement is that i have to open a template file which is in the
server.

regards,
kalaivanan

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Re: excel

hi

can you use a csv file instead?


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hi,
i did not the office version of the system in which the application is
going to be deployed.
is there any way of opening an excel file which is office independent.
My requirement is that i have to open a template file which is in the
server.
>
regards,
kalaivanan
>

[Jay Riggs]

Re: excel


kalaivanan wrote:

hi,
i did not the office version of the system in which the application is
going to be deployed.
is there any way of opening an excel file which is office independent.
My requirement is that i have to open a template file which is in the
server.
>
regards,
kalaivanan

kalaivanan,

You can also check out this article, which describes opening Excel
files using OLEDB without the requirement of installing Excel:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/excel_using_oledb.asp

-Jay