I've written a whole application based around a similar concept. I used Office Web Components ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Web_Components). At the back end the spreadsheets were saved as XML into a SQL database, but you can also save them to the file system.
Office Web Components are installed by default with all versions up to 2003, otherwise it's a downloadable from Microsoft for later versions. One problem I came across of late is that OWC is not supported in 64bit IE8. In that case you need to use Excel Web Services which are part of Sharepoint as David has already pointed out. Cheers, Iain Carlin On 11 June 2010 13:11, Michael Minutillo <[email protected]>wrote: > Sweet. Control vendors FTW > http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/silverlight/infragistics-excel.aspx#Overview > > > <http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/silverlight/infragistics-excel.aspx#Overview>Or > the free (incredibly cut down) equivalent: > http://sithiro.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/calclight-the-under-10kb-silverlight-spreadsheet/ > > > <http://sithiro.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/calclight-the-under-10kb-silverlight-spreadsheet/> > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Michael Minutillo < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I you are using SharePoint: >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx >> >> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx>If your users are >> all on an IE SOE then host Excel itself in the browser (I've never tried but >> I imagine it's possible). >> >> Otherwise cry because there are hundreds of man years of effort that have >> gone into developing Excel and replicating it for a single project seems >> incredibly hard. >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Arjang Assadi >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> For reasons far beyound my control I am to publish an excel page on a >>> website, allow modification and saving of it on the web server. I will >>> not bother you with what I see to be wrong with this approach, but >>> I'll rather apeal to you to suggest ways of doing this ( think of >>> answers you would give to somone who asks how to shoot themselves in >>> the foot). >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> >>> Arjang >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael M. Minutillo >> Indiscriminate Information Sponge >> Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com >> > > > > -- > Michael M. Minutillo > Indiscriminate Information Sponge > Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com >
