>I don't know how your framework is set up, but can you open a new connection to the path in the output filename and create a workbook as indicated in the article? http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316934#E5ACAAA
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>This could be a shared function that doesn't use all of the innards of the framework. It just accepts a filename and dataset/datatable as parameters and is completely self-contained.

The example of the knowledge base doesn't mention anything on the ability to go from dataset to Excel. It shows how to read the data from a table into a dataset but that's it. I have been reading it a few times and wasn't able to figure out how to go from a dataset to a xls.