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Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Apr 21st, 2008 at 1:15pm
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Hi, I am looking use the charting product, is it possible to export the chart after it is populated with data to MS Excel or MS Word to be incorporated into a report for example.
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #1 - Apr 21st, 2008 at 2:05pm
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Hi,

Masterchart does not support the Word and Excel file formats. You could use the CreateBitmap method to get an image of the chart, then call Image.Save to save it to a file. Finally embed the image file into the Word/Excel reports using the MSOffice Automation API.

I hope that helps,
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #2 - Apr 6th, 2009 at 3:11pm
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Hi,

I am facing the same challenge.

Could you possibly provide an example of how we can save an image to Excel or Word?
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #3 - Apr 6th, 2009 at 4:08pm
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Hi,

Here is a sample showing how to add an image to Word file, using OLE Automation:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/word_automation.aspx

I hope that helps,
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #4 - Apr 8th, 2009 at 10:53am
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Hi,

Thanks for the prompt answer. I can't get it working however.

So I found an alternative way to archieve what I want. I am going to save my chart, a radar chart, to disk and the load it via iTextSharp and save the whole thing as a RTF document.

Unfortunately I am having trouble saving my radar chart. I am trying to save it by first getting the data with GenerateMetafile. However since I am not  rendering the chart as html I am a bit stuck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. To sum up I need to save my radar chart to disk without rendering it as html.
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #5 - Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:26am
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Hi,

Are you using the ASP.NET version?

Stoyan
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #6 - Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:42am
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Yes, precisely.
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 8th, 2009 at 12:16pm
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Hi,

This version adds CreateBitmap and CreateMetafile methods to the WebForms.Chart class:

https://mindfusion.eu/_temp/webcharting_createimg.zip

You could call them to get an image of the chart and then save it to a file using the Image.Save method.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #8 - Apr 12th, 2009 at 4:01pm
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Thanks a lot. This seems like the right way, however I am not able to get it working. I get a lot of conflicts with MasterChart.dll and new dll's.
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #9 - Apr 13th, 2009 at 12:10am
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I decided to start from scratch again and this time I got it working without the masterchart.dll file.

Thank you very much for the help : )
  
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Re: Export Chart to MS Excel or MS Word
Reply #10 - Apr 13th, 2009 at 9:09am
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Sorry, I forgot to warn you about the new naming convention we are using now ...
  
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