How to export to excel from winform vb.net 2008 without office installed?

I am creating a windows form application using visual base (visual studio 2008).

The idea is to query the MySQL database and export the results to an excel document.

I managed to do it with this code (I'll just show the export to excel part):

    Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Data
Imports MySql.Data.MySqlClient
Imports System.Configuration
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Private Sub btn_getReport_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn_getReport.Click

    Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
    Dim ex As New Excel.Application
    wb = ex.Workbooks.Add(System.Reflection.Missing.Value)
    Dim sheet As Excel.Worksheet = CType(wb.Worksheets.Add, Excel.Worksheet)
    sheet.Name = "algo"

    Dim i As Integer = 1

    Try
        While reader.Read
            sheet.Cells(i, 1) = CStr(reader.Item(0))
            sheet.Cells(i, 2) = CStr(reader.Item(1))
            sheet.Cells(i, 3) = CStr(reader.Item(2))
            i += 1
        End While
    Catch MyEx As MySqlException
        RaiseEvent MySqlError(Err, MyEx, "read")
    Catch exc As Exception
        RaiseEvent MySqlError(Err, exc, "read")
    End Try


    Dim dialog As New SaveFileDialog
    Dim result As DialogResult = dialog.ShowDialog
    Try
        wb.SaveAs(dialog.FileName)
    Catch exerr As Exception
    End Try
    'Show the spreadsheet.
    'ex.Visible = True
    'wb.Activate()

End Sub

      

        
        
        
      

    

And it works fine on my laptop (which has office 2003 installed), but when I create an installation package and install it on the server where I will be using it (which does not have office installed), I get this error:

"Retrieving the COM factory class for components with CLSID {00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80040154".

For what I have read it is a problem when trying to use excel when it is not on the computer, I can understand that it really confuses me that I have used applications that export information to succeed even on computers without having office installed on them like can they do it?

And for writing, I need an excel file, not a CSV.

Many thanks.