ADODB Connection to a Excel File Stored in a Website

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HI,

I have been trying to create a ADODB connection to an Excel 2010 files located in a web location. But my connection string s not working.

VB

Dim con As ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

Set con = New ADODB.Connection

vPath = "localhost\MySite\counters\Book1.xlsm"

con.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & vPath & ";Readonly=False;Extended Properties=""Excel 12.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1"";"

con.Open

But it throws an error Could not find installable ISLM

Please help.

Posted 12-Mar-14 11:47am

anuragsapanbharat@gmail.com

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2014-03-12T12:17:00

Please, have a look here: How To Use ADO with Excel Data from Visual Basic or VBA[^] and follol the instructions. If it won't help, i need to warn you that there are known issues with x64 machines:
Could not find installable ISAM[^]
Accessing Excel files on a x64 machine[^]

Finally, i'm afraid your path is wrong:
VB

vPath = "localhost\MySite\counters\Book1.xlsm"

Have a look here: http://www.connectionstrings.com/excel/[^]
Path to the file should be defined as:

VB

vpath = "C:\some path\some file.xlsm"
'or
vpath = "\\server_name\shared_folder\some file.xlsm"