DateTime format mismatch on importing from Excel Sheet

Question

I\'m importing data from an Excel sheet on to a DataTable using the following code:

OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(\"Provider=Microso         


        

Answer 1

You may want to check that the current culture you are running supports UK style dates.Here is a link on how to check and change this at the thread level http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306162

The OleDb connection string seems to support ";Locale Identifier=". I think the eb-GB identifier is 2057 (Don't quote me ;)), you could also give that a try.

As for the exceptions not being thrown i think during the fill you may want to look into the RowUpdated events as per this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oledb.oledbdataadapter.rowupdated(VS.80).aspx.

This is how the Fill method of the DataSet works it will quit on the row where there is a problem, using the above events you may have some options on ignoring the row or reformatting.