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Browse All TopicsI use ADO.Net to open an Excel workbook.
If I know the name of the first worksheet, I can get the data no problem.
Is there a way to reference the first worksheet whatever its name is when creating the Command object?
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Excellent.
The answer is: cn.GetOleDbSchemaTable(Ole
or: cn.GetSchema("Tables")
which both return a datatable.
The only problem with this is that you have no clue which sheet is the first one (as they seem to be sorted by name).
It is not really a problem for me as the workbook contains a single worksheet (but my tests showed me multiple worksheets).
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by: DhaestPosted on 2009-06-29 at 06:18:18ID: 24735808
C# - Retrieve Excel Workbook Sheet Names. /KB/aspnet /getsheetn ames.aspx
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