--- launch excel

[Guest]

Hello,
How can I launch excel in my asp.net application?
Thanks,
Jim.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

How can I launch excel in my asp.net application?

On the client machine or the server?

(By the way, I assume you're putting dashes at the front of your
subject lines to get them at the top of the list, or something like
that. If so, could I ask you politely not to? Imagine if everyone
decided that they wanted their post at the top of the list.)

 

[Guest]

When user clicks a button I need to launch excel, if there is excel in the
client I may want to return a message.

(I do not think that --- puts my post at the top. I think It is by DateTime.
The reason I have --- so that I can easily see my posts, if it causes any
problem I can just give up)

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

When user clicks a button I need to launch excel, if there is excel in the
client I may want to return a message.

Well, you could return an Excel spreadsheet with an appropriate mime
type, and with any luck Excel will launch. That's the best you can do
though, as far as I know.

(I do not think that --- puts my post at the top. I think It is by DateTime.

That entirely depends on your newsreader. The way I've got mine set up,
it's sorted by subject.

The reason I have --- so that I can easily see my posts, if it causes any
problem I can just give up)

It just makes things a bit messy. Not a big problem when one person
does it - just not nice when lots of people decide to do the same
thing.

I'd thoroughly recommend using a proper newsreader if you can. I use
Gravity, which is free, and allows me to easily see replies to my posts
etc via rules.

 

[Guest]

How should I launch? can you give code example?

Well, you could return an Excel spreadsheet with an appropriate mime
type, and with any luck Excel will launch. That's the best you can do
though, as far as I know.


That entirely depends on your newsreader. The way I've got mine set up,
it's sorted by subject.


It just makes things a bit messy. Not a big problem when one person
does it - just not nice when lots of people decide to do the same
thing.

I'd thoroughly recommend using a proper newsreader if you can. I use
Gravity, which is free, and allows me to easily see replies to my posts
etc via rules.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

How should I launch? can you give code example?

Just give the Excel spreadsheet you want to launch as the response, and
set the mime type suitably - I don't know what the mime type should be,
off-hand. You can use HttpResponse.WriteFile to write the file to the
response.