Reading Microsoft Excel XML Spreadsheets in AIR
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008While Web applications, such as Flex applications, usually read data coming from the server in a predefined form and thus do not necessarily need to read third party data formats (the server has digested them). Desktop applications, on the contrary, usually require the ability to read data from such sources.
This is especially true when it comes to data visualization applications where the end-user might want to, for example, import its data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and display them into a data grid or charting control.
The objective of this post is to see how your AIR (or Flex) data visualization application can read a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and display its result.
