Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003

[Jay]

If this is not the right newsgroup for this question please let me know
which is the right one.

I have applications where I launch grid data in Excel format in IE. Rather
than launching in IE, I need to launch Excel directly. That is when I click
on a button I want Excel to launch filled with data from the server.

I have not gotten into VSTO but with my initial reading it seems to only be
for developing applications that are launched from Excel via Add Ins, etc.
rather than from a website. Same thing for Word.

How can I launch Excel from a webpage?

Thanks. Jay

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

You might be able to get an answer here,
but you're more likely to get an answer at :

http://forums.asp.net/33/ShowForum.aspx
or
http://forums.asp.net/138/ShowForum.aspx

You can launch Excel from a website, but it will run on the server,
not on the client-side, unless your user agrees to allow you to install
an ActiveX component that launches Excel client-side, if your client
has Excel installed, of course.