Excel “External table is not in the expected format.”

Question

I\'m trying to read an Excel (xlsx) file using the code shown below. I get an \"External table is not in the expected format.\" error unless I have the file already open in

Answer 1

Instead of OleDb, you could use the Excel Interop and open the worksheet as read-only.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.workbooks.open(v=office.15).aspx