Reading Excel Without Excel
Nov 21, 2011
I have a VB.NET app which pulls some data out of an Excel file and puts it into XML.Originally, I read from the Excel file using an OleDB connection but then when we deployed the app to the test server, it gave an error saying that some Jet database components needed to be registered on the server to read from Excel and we're not allowed to register those on the server.Then, I rewrote it using the Microsoft.Office.Interop Excel components. Apparently, however, that needs to have Excel registered on the server in order to work and we can't install that either.Is there another way to read data from Excel using VB.NET which doesn't require anything but the .NET Framework on the server the app is running from? It's just a few simple rows of data with no formulas or macros or anything and I just want to grab the data out. It seems to me that this shouldn't be all that complex.
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Oct 23, 2009
The following code works fine but seems to leave instances of excel.exe running in the background. How do I go about closing out this sub properly?
Private Sub ReadExcel(ByVal childform As Fone_Builder_Delux.frmData, ByVal FileName As String)
' In progress
childform.sampleloaded = False
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Jul 20, 2010
I need to access the current instance of MS Excel. To do that, I wrote the following code:
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Imports System.Diagnostics
Private _ExcelApp As Excel.Application
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The code runs nice, but it has a problem: After the user close the Excel application (click button X - note: no other instance of Excel exists), if you open the Windows's task manager, its possible to see the process Excel.exe.
If I open and close the Excel application, there is no process Excel.exe, but if I run my code with the Excel application openned, after the user close the Excel application, the process Excel.exe isn't finished.
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Mar 27, 2012
I am trying to build an app that can search column A in an excel document (with textbox control). In column B, I have info about the column A items. When a column A item is searched, I would like a textbox (or similar) to display info about it from column B.
I have never done any Excel related programming, so I don't know what to do, or where to start.
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Sep 26, 2010
I'm trying to read an Excel xls file into a dataset with OLE. I can do that, but it's loosing data. The sheet is formatted with merged cells on the first 11 rows and after that it's just a table. I need to read this with OLE, because the server on which this web-application is working does not have Excel installed.
If I remove the first 11 rows with excel, then save it and then let my program read it, all is fine, but with those rows, it's ok. The excel sheet has header names in row 12. After the read in to the dataset, some of those cells with the header names are empty. I assume this is caused by the formatting. Is there any other way to open and read an excel file on a server without Excel or expensive dll's? Is it possible to open the xls file with OLE, delete the first 11 rows before using da.fill(dataset,tablename)?
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Jan 4, 2011
i have this code that i am using to read from an excel spreadsheet but it i giving me an error saying that i am not not giving the exact name of the table.i have uploaded the excel spreadsheet as well. [code]
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Aug 30, 2010
I have a .csv file (created by external program). In my vb.net application I want to read the last cell value. External program updates the last cell value every 3 sec.For this I use the below code. But cpu usage increases (because timer event opens&closes new excel sheet every second)I was successfully doing this with vb6 without any problem, but with vb.net I'm stuck.
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Sep 28, 2011
I am reading in data from an excel file that is only viewed inside the program. This excel file is being populated by data from multiple PLCs (7) through DDE links via RS Linx Gateway. I would like this data to be written to two different excel files and specific sheets within those so that it can be viewed later on.
My program has a form that will allow the user to view the data live, meaning they look at the first excel file from the program so that they are not able to edit the DDE links or change the file in any way. The other excel files (there will be two, one for good parts, one for bad parts) have specific sheets for each part and each tester station. For example, if the part is a ABC part, and it is a good part, and it was tester on tester station 1 then it needs to be saved to the good parts excel file, in the ABC sheet and in the good tester station 1 sheet.
If part XYZ comes along and is a bad part (fails testing) then it needs to be saved to the bad parts file, the XYZ sheet and the bad tester station 1 sheet.I might have added more detail than is needed to solve the problem but I thought I would add it anyways to help you all understand my problem a little better.
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Aug 25, 2011
i am importing data from Excel workbook having around 30 sheets in each book. Application works fine but after uploading few books it gives error continuously Exception from HRESULT: 0x800AC472 i used thread.sleep(1000) for each workbook into folder remove that? if these due to hyperlinks in some sheet, is any way to disable hyperlinks through code in vb.net
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Jan 24, 2012
I'm developing application in VB.NET 2008.I'm reading data from Excel through OledbConnection. Here data are reading sometimes perfectly but sometimes it is missing to read some data.
Example :In Excel ,I have 79 columns in excel and 4 rows , first 3 rows are headers so after import i'll delete that rows and actual data starts from 4, so here i have only one row.After Reading through oledb, that dataset's datatable has only first 3 rows( first row became header and 2 & 3 row only in datatable, its ignoring 4th row)
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Dec 7, 2009
I am having problems reading the contents of an excel file into a combo box I am using the following code but the only thing that is populating the combo box is "System.__ComObject"
XLbook = GetObject(pthSup & "offices.xls")
XLsheet = XLbook.Sheets("Offices")
Dim i As Integer
[Code]....
I am relatively new Visual Basic and programming in general and I am trying to update a program I wrote for AutoCAD in VBA to the .NET frame work
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Sep 14, 2009
I have a little problem and i don't know e an excel sheet with with over 4000 rows and i need to go through that sheet and look at the length of each 1 cell and get the amount of characters in there and put that into another cell like below
[fixed]1
New cell10
[code].....
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Mar 10, 2008
I'm a new VB programmer, although I have a decent background in java.Anyways, I'm learning VB and I'm trying to read data from an Excel file using VB 2008 and can't figure out how to accomplish this. I can't seem to get any data from the Excel spreadsheet to display in a simple Windows form. Also, there's a decent amount of data in the spreadsheet so I was wondering if it makes sense to just read data as needed from the excel spreadsheet or if there was some type of data structure that I could import the entire Excel spreadsheet into and do my analysis from there.
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Nov 10, 2011
I have a question about reading data from txt file and importing(transfer) to the existing excel file.for example I have "test.text" which includes some numbers listed below.[code]I want to put each number to separate excel cells by using Vb.net.
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Oct 5, 2011
I have never read from an excel file in VB.NET before so sorry if anything is off.I am downloading an .csv file from a vendors ftp service that has 8 columns ( style # - mfr.item # - description - metal type - availability - center weight - total weight - retail value )I am trying to retrieve all data in the rows bellow style # and retail valuethere are roughly 4,649 rowsI am not sure how to do this.
I load the excel file using the microsoft.office.interop.excel:
Dim eApp As excel.Application
Dim eBook As excel.Workbook
[code]....
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Mar 5, 2009
I am trying to read an Excel workbook with VB 2008. I am fairly successful but I need to make the code more flexible. Currently I use.[code]There are a variable (unknown) number of sheets within a workbook, all with the same format, and their names are given in "SHEET NAMES". What I need to do is now loop through these remaining sheets and transfer the data. I can do this into individual "cells" arrays but I would like them in one 3-dimensional array, something like sheets(sheet-number,columns,rows)I am new to VB and I'm not too sure about variant type, but any suggestions would be most welcome.
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Aug 15, 2011
just as I would read an SQL file in order with code such as:DCReader02 = DCCommand02.ExecuteReader()While DCReader02.Read() End While I am looking for the equivalent code to read each line of an Excel file until end of file. The Excel file was opened with
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application / Workbook / Worksheet coding.
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Jan 22, 2010
I want to get a value from 12 excel sheet. is there any way that i get the values without opening the excel sheet? I am using vb.net. if there is a way to read values without opening the excel file.
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Mar 4, 2010
I just tried to read data from an excel sheet. I just found some code on net. But it is not working for me. I'm unable to debug, since i don't know how to make use of the ADO.Net [Code]
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Mar 4, 2010
i am not getting the integer values in dataset while reading from an excel files the field which is integer will be showing as NULL.
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Jan 8, 2010
I want to create thread for reading data from Excel. I found this link.url...I download the sample project and tried to run the project.First I build the project using visual studio 2005 and add reference the NetFX20Wrapper.dll..When I run the project, I got error "ActiveX Component cannot create obect" in the Line "Set background = New NetFX20Wrapper.BackgroundWorkerWrapper"
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Aug 12, 2009
I am reading XLS files, via JET provider, using the following
Dim conString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OleDb.4.0;data source=" + fileName + ";Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1;"""
cn = New OleDbConnection(conString)
cn.Open()
da = New OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM [" & sheetname & "]", cn)
da.Fill(dt)
The problem I am facing now is that some of these excel files have hidden columns: These columns are meant to be ignored. However, the code above fills my datatable with ALL columns (hidden and nothidden). Is there any "Extended Property" that I could add to the connection string, to ignore hidden columns?
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Dec 2, 2009
Exception While Reading Excel Sheet Drop Down Value...
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Jun 24, 2011
I want to read an Excel sheet into a DataTable using an OleDbDataAdapter, however, I only want a section of the spreadsheet (the part that 'looks like a database').[code]
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Oct 5, 2011
I already know the basic procedure of how to read specific cells of an .xls file using VB.NET but I can't figure out how to automatically get all the data from such a file.Basically, I'm obtaining the data like this:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim ws As Worksheet
xlApp = New Excel.Application
[code]....
In this case, I know that there will be content in the first 10 rows of the columns A, B and C but what would I have to do if I had a huge document whose size and content might even change from time to time? I know that there is also an attribute ws.rows.count but this always returns a big value like 60000 even if only a few rows are occupied.So basically, I'm looking for a simple way to loop through all the used rows of an Excel file with the possibility of accessing each cell in that row.
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Sep 30, 2010
G'day all, I've been on google for far too long trying to figure this out, so hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to write a program that will open an Excel spreadsheet and read data from specific cells while preserving datatypes, so that I can write the data to an XML file. The basic functions I need to perform reduce to:
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Mar 27, 2012
I am trying to build an app that can search column A in an excel document (with textbox control). In column B, I have info about the column A items. When a column A item is searched, I would like a textbox (or similar) to display info about it from column B.
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Dec 2, 2009
I have Visual Studio 2008/VB application that opens Excel workbooks, reads all the sheets, and writes some data to a SQL database. I need an easy way to determine if a sheet has any data on it. By default most books has three sheets (Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3) and usually, but not always, my books have data only on sheet1. But i need to look at alal sheets to check for the existence of data. I know I can do a nested for loop from 1 to columns.count and rows.count, but that would take a good bit of time since those numbers usually are something like 256 and 65K.
Is ther some easy way to determine if there is any data on the sheet? If there is, is there an easy way to find the "first" cell with data in it?
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Sep 27, 2009
Reading Excel in .NET - some columns are read in as null
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Feb 10, 2010
I'm tryng to read an excel sheet that has more than 255 cell. I'm using the following code:
Dim MyConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection
Dim MyDataSet As New System.Data.DataSet
Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("PCOConnectionString2").ConnectionString
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this code throws me an error that indicates me that there are too many rows to read. I found, seaching through forums, that it can't be more that 255 cells on the sheet i'm reading.
How can i read this sheet that has over 500 cells?
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