Reading data from Excel sheet using entity framework

Question

We have some info that is contained within an excel sheet. the excel sheet contains two columns; customer name + customer balance. Now I need to display this info inside my

Answer 1

Excel is not a database system so don't think directly you can use the entity framework. But yes Excel can be read using .net APIs

Answer 2

It is better to extract the data from the excel sheet and add it to Datable which you can do using oledbconnection object , connectionobject.GetOleDbSchemaTable.

Answer 3

FileContextCore seems like an effort to make excel and other file types work in EF Core. Obviously this can be nice for consistency if you're already using EF Core.

Answer 4

You can use LinqToExcel , this provides normal linq structure to query excel sheets