I need a workaround for Excel Guessing Data Types problem

Question

I\'m creating a utility to import data from Excel to Oracle database,

I have a fixed template for the excel file,

Now, when I\'m trying to import the data by J

Answer 1

This isn't completely right! Apparently, Jet/ACE ALWAYS assumes a string type if the first 8 rows are blank, regardless of IMEX=1, and always uses a numeric type if the first 8 rows are numbers (again, regardless of IMEX=1). Even when I made the rows read to 0 in the registry, I still had the same problem. This was the only sure fire way to get it to work:

try
{
    Console.Write(wsReader.GetDouble(j).ToString());
}
catch   //Lame unfixable bug
{
    Console.Write(wsReader.GetString(j));
}