OLEDB, Writing Excel cell without leading apostrophe

Question

I\'m writing to Excel file using OLEDB (C#). What I need is just RAW data format.

I\'ve noticed all cells (headers and values) are prefixed by apostrophe (\')

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Answer 1

Could you just use the Excel DSN? It seems to be pretty ubiquitous. I don't know .NET, so take this with a grain of salt, but here's my connection string for an OLEDB Query straight from a stock table:

"Provider=MSDASQL.1;Persist Security Info=True;Extended Properties
=""DSN=Excel Files;DBQ=" & filePath & "\" & fileName &
";DriverId=1046;MaxBufferSize=2048;PageTimeout=5;"""

And I used this basic INSERT statement:

INSERT INTO rngOutput VALUES (1, 'ABC', '$1.00', 1300)

When I did this, I didn't have any apostrophes in my data range. I'm also using Excel 2007, and I see you're using Excel 8.0 as your driver?

Hopefully that nudges you toward a solution!