accessing db on other pc

[Neil]

I am writing an asp.net webpage. It has some code behind it that uses data from an excel spreadsheet. My problem is that instead of having the excel spreadsheet reside on the server with my asp.net webpage, I would like the spreadsheet to reside on the users computer.

This way everyone has there own data but uses my algorthim on my server

This mean my asp.net program must make an ADO.Net connection to a "database" on the users computer. Is this possible? Can I get a connection to a database on someone elses computer or will security issues get in my
Thank you, Neil

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

> I am writing an asp.net webpage.

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[Bob Lehmann]

Security issues will get in your.

Bob Lehmann

"Neil" <neildevgon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am writing an asp.net webpage. It has some code behind it that uses data

from an excel spreadsheet. My problem is that instead of having the excel
spreadsheet reside on the server with my asp.net webpage, I would like the
spreadsheet to reside on the users computer.

>
> This way everyone has there own data but uses my algorthim on my server.
>
> This mean my asp.net program must make an ADO.Net connection to a

"database" on the users computer. Is this possible? Can I get a connection
to a database on someone elses computer or will security issues get in my?

> Thank you, Neil