Read excel file from a stream

Question

I need a way to read a Excel file from a stream. It doesn\'t seem to work with the ADO.NET way of doing things.

The scenario is that a user uploads a file through a

Answer 1

It seems i found a soultion to the problem myself.

http://www.codeplex.com/ExcelDataReader

This library seems to work nicely and it takes a stream to read the excel file.

ExcelDataReader reader = new ExcelDataReader(ExcelFileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream);