What's the best way to export UTF8 data into Excel?

Question

So we have this web app where we support UTF8 data. Hooray UTF8. And we can export the user-supplied data into CSV no problem - it\'s still in UTF8 at that point. The proble

Answer 1

You're forgetting creating an OleDB datasource and Excel Interop, but there are issues with those as well.

I recommend the SpreadsheetML option. It works pretty well, odds are your platform has some decent tools for building xml files, and it's fully supported as far back as OfficeXP. Office2000 is not supported, but personal experience is that it works in a limited way.