How to read single Excel cell value

Question

I have excel file with sheet1 that has a value I need to read on row 2 and column 10. Here is my code.

Excel.Workbook excelWorkbook = excelApp.Workbooks.Ope         


        

Answer 1

It is better to use .Value2() instead of .Value(). This is faster and gives the exact value in the cell. For certain type of data, truncation can be observed when .Value() is used.