code for opening excel

[Miguel Orrego]

Hi,

Does anybody know some code that opens a spreadsheet in excel rather than
the browser? If possible something that can be used with response.redirect,
however this isn't essential. I have a script that creates an excel report,
and people then open this report from a link. However I've been asked
whether it could be opened in excel.

Cheers.

 

[Ray at]

I assume you mean on the client. You can use this code to prompt the
open/save dialog and instruct the user to choose to open the file.
http://www.aspfaq.com/2161

Whether or not Excel opens in IE or Excel is a client setting (browse in
same window for .xls file extension)

Ray at work

 

[Tom B]

If your users are using IE and trust your site, you can use vbscript to
instantiate excel and open it(client-side)