A project I am working on requires me to convert around one hundred word and excel templates into forms accessable through a browser. Word templates are easy enough, standard web forms do the trick, however, an excel spreadsheet is not so easy, given that you
dont know how many rows/columns may be required at runtime. I was wondering if there is a way to interface directly between a web based asp.net application and microsoft excel spreadsheets? Or perhaps if anyone knows of an alternative solution to standard
web forms? Cheers, Murray
Hi Murray, I'm not sure I understand the purpose behind converting the word documents and excel files to forms. However, if you need some way for your client to provide data to your templates, you can use SoftArtisans ExcelWriter to send an Excel spreadsheet
from the webserver to the client's browser (to open with the Excel plug-in in the browser, or to open directly in Excel). The spreadsheet can then be updated and sent back to the server, where ExcelWriter can read the data from the spreadsheet and update your
datastore. Do you think something like this would meet your requirements? You can see a demo of this on the SoftArtisans' website. Direct link to demo application:
http://demo.softartisans.com/Demos/HotCells/form.asp Link to SoftArtisans website:
http://www.softartisans.com They have evaluation versions as well.... Hope this helps.
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