Re: Second try...need help embedding Excel viewer as web part

Fred,

Ok much confusion as I've not worked with these downloads but they look
interesting.
First the download link you've given is not a server side component its
a client side Excel Add-in that helps you generate and upload to
SharePoint the files needed to display the spread***.
It generates a DWP web part file, a solution file and the spread***
data in XMLSS format
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnexcl2k2/html/odc_xmlss.asp)
The fact its beta should not matter as it seems to work fine and you
could generate the files needed by hand anyway.

The MS Office Components for SharePoint software is this download which
is the server side component web parts and supporting files that the
above add in targets.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=38BE67A5-2056-46A1-84B1-337FFB549C5C&displaylang=en
Yes this install would need to be installed on the server but its not a
beta and it looks like the install does it all, even your IT people
should be able to handle that.

Ultimately this installs web parts in the Microsoft.Office.DataParts
namespace that you can add to a site page and these generate sundry
JavaScript for data binding and connecting pivot tables and
spreadsheets.
The fact is they also generate an OBJECT statement that wraps the OWC
components, which is where we came in.
It worth looking to see if this gives you what your looking for but the
OWC only consume excel XML (XMLSS), CSV and HTML data not whole xls
files.
You also might want to try the OWC newsgroup
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.developer.web.components?lnk=sg&hl=en

Colin


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