Uploading an Excel sheet and importing the data into SQL Server database

Question

I am developing this simple application to upload an Excel file (.xlsx) and import the data present in that Excel worksheet into a SQL Server Express database i

Answer 1

    public async Task PostFormDataAsync()    //async is used for defining an asynchronous method
    {
        if (!Request.Content.IsMimeMultipartContent())
        {
            throw new HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.UnsupportedMediaType);
        }
        var fileLocation = "";
        string root = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data");
        MultipartFormDataStreamProvider provider = new MultipartFormDataStreamProvider(root);  //Helps in HTML file uploads to write data to File Stream
        try
        {
            // Read the form data.
        await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(provider);

            // This illustrates how to get the file names.
            foreach (MultipartFileData file in provider.FileData)
            {
                Trace.WriteLine(file.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName); //Gets the file name
                var filePath = file.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName.Substring(1, file.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName.Length - 2); //File name without the path
                File.Copy(file.LocalFileName, file.LocalFileName + filePath); //Save a copy for reading it
                fileLocation = file.LocalFileName + filePath; //Complete file location
            }
    HttpResponseMessage response = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, recordStatus);
            return response;
}
catch (System.Exception e)
    {
            return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, e);
    }
}
public void ReadFromExcel()
{
try
        {
            DataTable sheet1 = new DataTable();
            OleDbConnectionStringBuilder csbuilder = new OleDbConnectionStringBuilder();
            csbuilder.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0";
            csbuilder.DataSource = fileLocation;
            csbuilder.Add("Extended Properties", "Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES");
            string selectSql = @"SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]";
            using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(csbuilder.ConnectionString))
            using (OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(selectSql, connection))
            {
                connection.Open();
                adapter.Fill(sheet1);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        }          
}