C# Referencing of Office Libraries without Office installation

[gwfran]

We have a server running IIS (.NET 1.1) and need to parse Excel spreadsheets
uploaded to us. The server, however, does not have Office installed. Is
there a redistributable available so that the Excel classes/types can be
utilized by our C# app?

 

[Simon Murphy]

There is no Excel redistributable. And Ms don't recommend running Excel
on a server.
If you are using 2003 could your users save to XML and upload that?
If you are using 2007 look at Excel Services and If you can bump up your
..net version look at System.IO.Packaging

Cheers
Simon
Excel development website: www.codematic.net

 

[Peter T]

Try searching to see if anyone has made a BIFF8 reader, either in C# or with
results accessible to C# (eg it makes a CSV or similar).

Regards,
Peter T