Convert Excel spreadsheet to web service?

They can put the Excel file on SharePoint (as a List). SharePOint lists are exposed via an API.

That's good to know, but the supplier in question doesn't have Sharepoint I'm afraid. – Sam Crawford Mar 14 at 10:58 Would they be willing to host relevant parts of the Excel file on Google docs? Google docs too provides programmatic access and supplier can control/restrict access.

– Shamit Verma Mar 14 at 11:01 Good suggestion Shamit, I'll look into that. Thanks! – Sam Crawford Mar 14 at 11:19.

I think you can do this with Microsoft Office Live by putting the spreadsheet on SkyDrive, and then dropping some generated html into a web-page. See office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps-help... Although I am not sure about how much you can restrict access until Office 365 goes live (which will include Sharepoint). microsoft.com/en-gb/cloud/cloudpowersolu....

You could extract the data from the spreadsheet, and provide an OData or similar service to it using WCF Data Services. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg601461 - video on creating a WCF data service from a non-entity framework custom data source As far as extracting the data goes, there are Linq to Excel providers that would do this nicely, or you can look at the OpenXML API - there's numerous other ways of doing this so take your pick.

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