title: XML to Excel (2007) Ideas using Windows XP, and C#.Net
body: <p>I have a dataset that I have modified into an xml document and then used a xsl sheet to transform into an Excel xml format in order to allow the data to be opened programatically from my application.  I have run into two problems with this:</p>
  
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  <li><p>Excel is not the default Windows application to open Excel files, therefore when Program.Start("xmlfilename.xml") is run, IE is opened and the XML file is not very readable.</p></li>
  <li><p>If you rename the file to .xlsx, you receive a warning, "This is not an excel file, do you wish to continue".  This is not ideal for customers.</p></li>
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  <p>Ideally, I would like Windows to open the file in Excel without modifying the default OS setting for opening Excel files. Office interop is a possibility, but seems like a little overkill for this application.  Does anyone have any ideas to make this work?</p>
  
  <p>The solution is in .Net/C#, but I am open to other possibilities to create a clean solution.</p>