Question

I would like to know the best way to transfer data from a web service to an excel worksheet (office 2007). I am not interested in outputing a report to excel from a web site. In our scenario a user will be using excel (with a number of macros and such) and will request about 11000 rows of data from the server to a worksheet.

Anyone have any experience with this?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Check into SharePoint and Excel Services – that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. You can publish data sources in SharePoint for any users to use in Excel, and keep their Excel spreadsheets up to date with the data warehouse.

Architecture overview:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.02.bookbi.aspx

Implementation guide in SQL Server Magazine (requires subscription):

http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=99355&pg=2