Portability with using the Excel object?

Question

Hi. I have an app that uses Excel.Application. On my dev box, which has Office installed, it works great. I want to move it though to a server. We don't like installing stuff like Office on our production servers, so that is a bit of an issue with an app that wants to be able to speak Excel heh. I was hoping since it compiled and had Interop.Excell.dll and Interop.Microsoft.Office.Core.dll it would just automagically work but no such luck.

Anyone know if there is a way to register something on the server to give the Excel functionality, or do I just have to suck it up and install Excel? Thanks.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Microsoft recommends to have an installed version of office (legallu) on any machine you need to use Offce Interop Dlls. You may want to give these a try: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kh3965hw.aspx PIA for office 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59daebaa-bed4-4282-a28c-b864d8bfa513&DisplayLang=en Interesting Reading: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757

Ken · Answer

Thanks!