msOffice intergration
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I have spent a few days looking now, and have had no luck, but i thought i would ask here incase any one else knew something i have missed. Is it possible to interact with msOffice applications through a silverlight website. I'm looking for the ability to create word and or excel documents programatically then launch them in word or excel. Infragistics have a component that lets you import/export data from excel, as do several other component providers, but i have not yet seen any tutorials/documentation on how this is done, any help or pointers would be appreciated.
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I have spent a few days looking now, and have had no luck, but i thought i would ask here incase any one else knew something i have missed. Is it possible to interact with msOffice applications through a silverlight website. I'm looking for the ability to create word and or excel documents programatically then launch them in word or excel. Infragistics have a component that lets you import/export data from excel, as do several other component providers, but i have not yet seen any tutorials/documentation on how this is done, any help or pointers would be appreciated.
I don't believe you'll be able to do this from a Silverlight App alone on the client side. Maybe look at the server side - ASP.NET for example. Maybe something here: Integrating Excel and Word with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites[^]
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I don't believe you'll be able to do this from a Silverlight App alone on the client side. Maybe look at the server side - ASP.NET for example. Maybe something here: Integrating Excel and Word with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites[^]
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
I take it the answer will be the same for intergrating with outlook too, which is a lot harder to do using web services/applications as they would need to be hosted on the PC viewing the site. The office stuff may be acceptable server side but any outlook interaction would have to be client side.
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I take it the answer will be the same for intergrating with outlook too, which is a lot harder to do using web services/applications as they would need to be hosted on the PC viewing the site. The office stuff may be acceptable server side but any outlook interaction would have to be client side.
Silverlight is a browser plugin so it's pretty limited - no playing outside the browser sandbox :)
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I have spent a few days looking now, and have had no luck, but i thought i would ask here incase any one else knew something i have missed. Is it possible to interact with msOffice applications through a silverlight website. I'm looking for the ability to create word and or excel documents programatically then launch them in word or excel. Infragistics have a component that lets you import/export data from excel, as do several other component providers, but i have not yet seen any tutorials/documentation on how this is done, any help or pointers would be appreciated.
Just send a web service request to the server with your parameters for the word/excel file, have the server create the file. The web request can bring back a temporary URL with the desired file that you would link to in a popup window.