Export dataobject to formatted excel file

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Hey, I have been trying to export a dataobject to a nicely formatted excel spreedsheet and have not figured out how.

Things I've tried
-I can create a .csv file but you can not format in .csv.
-Also the Interlop library is not allowed due to security reasons.

Are there any other ways that you might know of to do it?

I was thinking Jet or Ace. Or maybe as an XML file with XSL styling. I've looked at different ways to do it but I haven't found a guide that tells me what I have to do to accomplish such a task. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted 12-May-11 4:10am

MJ_

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Hemant__Sharma · Answer 1 · 2011-05-12T04:28:00

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If you are targetting Excel 2003 and higher then yes XML can be an answer.

below is the link talks about how to do this:
Generating Excel (XML Spreadsheet) in C#[^]

Thanks,
Hemant

Posted 12-May-11 4:28am

Hemant__Sharma

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MJ_ 12-May-11 11:41am

I've looked at that and I don't see how that is styling it.
I am currently writing to an XML file and outputing correctly, but where is it that it opens it up in excel and where is it that it formats the data columns?