Introduction > Features and Benefits

Features and Benefits

• Generates full function, native Microsoft Excel from a Web form, an existing Excel workbook, or any data source.
  
  
• Built for the most demanding sites, ExcelWriter easily generates thousands of workbooks per day.
  
  
• Code-based or template-driven development.
  
  
• Server-side solution: does not require Microsoft Excel on the user's computer or the server.
  
  
• Enables easy spreadsheet generation from a database.
  
  
• HotCell Technology allows you to update a server-side data source directly from client-side Microsoft Excel.
  
  
• Produces editable Excel spreadsheets (BIFF8 or BIFF7).
  
  
• Supports virtually all Excel formatting, functions, and charts.
  
  
• Supports advanced Excel features such as pivot tables, VBA, and macros.
  
  
• Creates pictures from existing image files.
  
  
• Allows you to save the generated workbook to disk or stream it to a Web browser.
  
  
• ExcelWriter is a high performance, multithreaded, single dynamic link library (DLL).
  
  
• Reads existing Excel spreadsheets and allows you to modify existing spreadsheets.
  
  
• Can be used from ASP, ASP.NET, or Visual Basic.
  
  

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