Excel unable to insert more than 255 chars?

Question

I am using OLE DB driver to insert more than 255 characters into an Excel sheet, but I get the error:

Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbExcep

Answer 1

The link you are refering to, is about 256 columns and not characters. The 256 characters problem is described here with a workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213841