Read Excel file with OleDB c#, when it is used by other process

Question

I am trying to read an excel file every 2 seconds, This file is getting updated by other RTD application.

I am able to read this file by Oledb connection, but probl

Answer 1

Not sure , why do you want to read the excel the way you are doing.

You can try LinqToExcel for excel reading , its a nice little library for reading excel files also if you need to create excel then try to EPPLUS library. These library i personally found really effective when working with Excels