Open an Excel 2003 spreadsheet with C#. Could not find installable ISAM. Exception

Question

I need to pull data from an xls, I also need have the user be able to change the location of the file it will. So an OleDbConnection seemed like a good start, and it was unt

Answer 1

Assuming your system requirements include an installation of Excel, you can use the Excel Object Library

Excel.Sheets sheets = m_Excel.Worksheets;
Excel.Worksheet worksheet = (Excel.Worksheet)sheets.get_Item(1);
Excel.Range range = worksheet.get_Range("A1", "E1".ToString());

etc.

See also VSTO