Using Microsoft Office Interop to create and parse Excel spreadsheets from ASP.NET

Question

I have a new ASP.NET MVC project that has two requirements that require using the Office Interop DLLs to generate Excel spreadsheet files in Excel 2003 format by combining sever

Answer 1

Using Excel interop on the server is a reallyy bad idea. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757

Alternatives are:

Open source

Excel 2003 ExcelLibrary http://code.google.com/p/excellibrary/downloads/list

NPOI http://npoi.codeplex.com/

Excel 2007

ExcelPackage http://excelpackage.codeplex.com/

Commercial

Aspose Cells http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.cells-for-.net/default.aspx