how can i open a excel inside a web browser?

Question

I need to open a excel in web browser when click a button.how to do that in asp.net

Answer 1

You can open and control and excel file on the server side with .net, then you can write an html/javascript frontend (or silverlight) for the actions. But you cannot open the ms excel itself as a dom object etc.

Look into the excel object model for .net.