I thought to use the grid to export dataset to excel from a proccess, and not from a form  .

I mean I want to create a windows service, that binds data to a grid and exports it

to excel, without opening a form.

Is this possible?

The following code, created an empty excel file:

grid.DataSource = ds;
grid.Show(); 
grid.Refresh(); 
 string exportFileName = "c:\\X.xls";

ultraGridExcelExporter1.Export(grid, exportFileName);