Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, we’ve had requests for our SL4 app to generate Word, Excel and > PowerPoint files. Security restrictions normally prevent this and > there are problems with dependencies on the client. At the moment as a > workaround we simply paste XML and text into the clipboard and the > user then pastes it into Excel. We noticed that no other competitive > SL apps generate Office documents, so I presume they have given up > trying to overcome the security sandboxing like we did. > > However, we’ve had fresh requests so I thought I’d mention the topic > in here in case there are new products and techniques that I’m not > aware of. I think if our App is installed as a trusted out-of-browser > app then it do what we want, but we think it’s unlikely that anyone > will do that, and we haven’t tried it anyway. > > Perhaps we could generate the documents on the server side, place them > in a public URL and give the SL user a hyperlink to them. Has anyone > tried this? > > Cheers, > > Greg > Heya Greg,
While I am not sure of specific issues to do with Silverlight, in generating excel documents you could: - generate a CSV - there are plenty of free 3rd party .Net components for creating excel documents without reliance on other external things. This may overcome any dependency/security issues by writing a valid binary/xml file directly. - aspose have a decent excel component, but they are pricey. (Microway do a pretty good deal $$$) All the above 3 options would work with a server side solution too. While not recommended by microsoft, Excel Automation using a singleton pattern could be used, but there are a few issues that may arise (or may not) dependent on what you are trying to do. -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
