Starting Excel

[BrianEKeating]

Hi there,
I created a windows form application and added a reference to excel com obj ver9

then i called
Excel.Application xl = new Excel.Application();
xl.Visible = true;

and it started excel,

however when i did the same thing on a web form I only get the excel process being created but it is not shown!

any ideas?

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[Arild Fines]

I dont think the user context under which ASP.NET runs has access to the window station.

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[BrianEKeating]

Good suggestion,
how would i give it this privillage?

Thanks
Brian

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[Arild Fines]

I believe the user used by ASP.NET is configured in the machine.config file(search for it - dont remember offhand where it is). But I am still not sure where you are going with this? Even if you did manage to get it running, it would still only be visible on the server monitor - not very useful to the person viewing the webpage. Or are you trying to get it to show in the browser?

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[BrianEKeating]

You were dead right, i wanted it to start the app on the same machine as the browser, I ended up calling some vbscript to create the com object, don't think there is another way.

thanks
Brian.
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