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I have developed an application which reads data from excel sheet using OLEDB.
It's working fine on my PC where I am using connection string for Excel 2007. But when I copy output files to some another machine then its not working and trowing an error.

Eventually I thought that it was because that machine has Excel 2003 installed
then I tried where Excel 2003 is installed I used connection string as follow -
C#
string sConnection = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DataSource=" + filePath + ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;";
OleDbConnection dbCon = new OleDbConnection(sConnection);
dbCon.Open();

but there also error is occurring. When I tried to debug my code on that machine then it threw an error like "ServerVersion = 'dbCon.ServerVersion' threw an exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException'" at the time of opening OLEDB Connection.

I am not getting the reason behind the error. Please help. Tell me if you need more information.
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Updated 29-Feb-12 1:55am
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Herman<T>.Instance 29-Feb-12 7:55am    
HDR=1
Ankit Kumar Gupta 29-Feb-12 7:57am    
Give detailed exception,
content of filePath.

1 solution

You could try something like this (note that I like to use a set of fall back connection strings, you might want to add strings that are relevant to you there);

C#
public IEnumerable<sometypeofyours> Load(string filename, string sheetName)
{

    foreach (string connectionStringBase in new[]
        {
            "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;",
            "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data source={0};Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"
        })
    {
        try
        {
            string connectionString = String.Format(connectionStringBase, filename);
            OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(String.Format("select * from [{0}$]", sheetName), connectionString);
            DataSet dataset = new DataSet();
            adapter.Fill(dataset, "dummy");

            DataTable table = dataset.Tables["dummy"];
            IList<sometypeofyours> result = new List<sometypeofyours>();
            foreach (System.Data.DataRow row in table.Rows)
            {
                SomeTypeOfYours item = new SomeTypeOfYours { SomeProperty = row.Get(0) };
                result.Add(item);
            }
            return result;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            // Try next
        }
    }

    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("filename", "File does not contain import data in a known format.");
}


Hope this helps,
Fredrik
 
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udayRBA 1-Mar-12 7:50am    
Thanks a lot Fredik. This has solved my problem. But I didn't understand why the error was there even if I was using same connection strings as you. The only change I did in my code is I changed the connection strings with yours and its working now.
Fredrik Bornander 1-Mar-12 8:21am    
Glad I could help.
Thakkar Vipul 22-Feb-13 1:55am    
Thanks it works for me

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