writing to Excel using ASP.Net

[Jeff Hamilton]

I have several ASP.Net pages which allow the user to view
the content in Excel. To do this I am using the
line 'Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"'
in the Page_Load event. For Win 2K machines running IE
5.0 this does not cause a problem, however for machines
running Win XP and IE 6.0 it generates a fatal error
dialog box stating that Excel needs to close. Is this a
known Excel/IE error or am I doing something incorrectly?

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Obviously this is not normal.
Make sure you're up to date on your patches.
If that doesn't work, make sure you don't have anything funky in your Excel
output.

 

[Alvin Bruney]

The error is related to missing service packs for office web components.
Please go to
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx. In addition you will
need the latest service packs for your browser AND for your OS.