Excel Plugin for ASP.NET application

Question

I am working on an ASP.NET application. I want to embed/display (if possible) an Excel file into the application (in my browser), such that all of its functionality, like adding expressions and filters, is present. It's a cloud-based application and I would prefer an open source (OpenOffice?) solution.

Answer 1

You can't really embed an excel file and have it displayed on your site. The best you can do is try to use your excel file as a data source for something like the grid control from Telerik. It has pretty advanced functionality, but still doesn't approach Excel itself, so you'd have to test to see if it does what you need.

As for open source options, there are definitely solutions for displaying grids of data, but none of them have really advanced functionality unless you program it yourself.