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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:28:48+00:00

I got the requirement to output some reports as Excel 2002 spreadsheets. Normally a

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I got the requirement to output some reports as Excel 2002 spreadsheets.

Normally a job for reporting services – however – that’s “not great IMO” and I hate it so for this project I used ExtJs – which doesn’t do any excel output – not really – but does do the UI really, really well.

The reports will need to have outlining, grouping summaries and all sorts of formatting not available if I use the plain XML formatting. This is the one thing Reporting services does do really well. Gutted.

So… Does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives to reporting services and definitely not installing Office on the server? Crystal reports are just as “not great IMO” as RS so not that either 🙂

I have looked at aspose et al but they’re a bit expensive and I’d like to find something open-source, if possible – such as perhaps using open office -, if I can find a way of using OOo on the server without actually installing it.

Any ideas?

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    I ended up going the OpenXml SDK route – which is a bit of a PITA in some situs but good in others – once you get the hang of it…

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