Posted by Posted in .NET, ASP.NET

OpenXML error “file is corrupt and cannot be opened.”

From time to time I ear some people saying their new web application supports data export to Excel format.

So far so good … but they don’t tell the all story … in fact almost all the times what is happening is they are exporting data to a Comma-Separated file or simply exporting GridView rendered HTML to an xls file.

Ok … it works but it’s not something I would be proud of.

So … yesterday I decided to take a look at the Office Open XML File Formats Specification (Microsoft Office 2007+ format) based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. read more

Posted by Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, CodeProject

ELWEA – EventLog WebEvent Aggregator for ASP.NET

Last time I wrote about Health Monitoring was during 2008 and since then I ‘m using, on a daily basis, a complex Health Monitoring EventLog provider to aggregate WebEvents from specific ASP.NET web applications.

Last year I found ELMAH (Error Logging Module and Handler) project and became a fan of the concept:

“[…] facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.”

It didn’t take much time until I start thinking  about releasing a version of my EventLog WebEvents aggregator. read more