How to read from XLSX (Excel)?

Question

I have a problem with reading from .xlsx (Excel) file. I tried to use:

var fileName = @\"C:\\automated_testing\\ProductsUploadTemplate-2015-10-22.xlsx\";
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Answer 1

If you are reading data from Excel file, you can use EPPlus NuGet package, and use following code:

//using OfficeOpenXml;
using (ExcelPackage xlPackage = new ExcelPackage(new FileInfo(@"C:\YourDirectory\sample.xlsx")))
{
    var myWorksheet = xlPackage.Workbook.Worksheets.First(); //select sheet here
    var totalRows = myWorksheet.Dimension.End.Row;
    var totalColumns = myWorksheet.Dimension.End.Column;

    var sb = new StringBuilder(); //this is your data
    for (int rowNum = 1; rowNum <= totalRows; rowNum++) //select starting row here
    {
        var row = myWorksheet.Cells[rowNum, 1, rowNum, totalColumns].Select(c => c.Value == null ? string.Empty : c.Value.ToString());
        sb.AppendLine(string.Join(",", row));
    }
}

Answer 2

Reading Excel files with OLE provider is possible only if MS Jet engine (MS Access) is installed. I noticed that you decided to use .NET interop to API but this is not a good idea: it requires installed MS Excel and doesn't recommended to use for automation on servers.

If you don't need to support old (binary) Excel formats (xls) and reading XLSX is enough I recommend to use EPPlus library. It provides simple and powerful API for both reading and writing XLSX files (and has a lot of examples):

var existingFile = new FileInfo(filePath);
// Open and read the XlSX file.
using (var package = new ExcelPackage(existingFile)) {
   // access worksheets, cells etc
}