support different Office versions with Office Automation

Question

We created an application that uses Office 2007 (Excel 2007) to read in data from an Excel worksheet. However. I noticed that when I want to deploy the application on a syst

Answer 1

Depending on whether you have any other requirements (you say reading data from excel), you can use the OLEDB driver to connect to the excel file and query it in a SQL manner.

Example: http://codehill.com/2009/01/reading-excel-2003-and-2007-files-using-oledb/