My users want data from my application in Excel. The data resides in a SQL Server database but I don't want the users to have direct access to the database, I would rather provide them a web service to get the data. What is the best way to move data from SQL Server to Excel via a web service?
You can do it as a straight asp.net page and return a .csv file. If you change the mimetype to text/csv, it should default to open in excel. This would be the easiest approach, and one that I've used in the past with great success.
