How to create an excel file and deliver to the screen using C# in a MVC project?

Question

Please send code samples if you can, Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you need to 3d-party form control.

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I think the best implementation would be non-free Google: excel+reports+asp.net has a number of solutions

Answer 2

The Excel 2007 format can be created without Excel, as it's just a zip file containing XML files, I've generated Word 2007 docs before on the fly and served them from a web page without Word installed.

There's an article here on CodeProject

Answer 3

If you're not militant about it being "an excel file" and actually mean "A file with some data I have, loaded with excel", then all you have to do is create a .csv and open it programatically with excel. It'll look the same as a 'real' excel file, mostly-kinda.