How to read an Excel file using C#

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The following program illustrates how to

open an existing Excel spreadsheet in C#
using .NET Framework COM interop capability. Also you can see
how to find Named Ranges in Excel and get the range of occupied
cells (Used area) in excel sheet.
The following C# source code using Microsoft
Excel 12.0 Object Library for reading an Excel
file. In the previous section we saw how to import Microsoft Excel
12.0 Object Library in the CSharp project .
Create Excel file from CSharp
How to specify a range in Excel sheet?
If you want to select a specific cell in Excel sheet, you can code like
this.
Excel.Worksheet excelSheet = workbook.ActiveSheet; Excel.Range
rng = (Excel.Range)excelSheet.Cells[10, 10];
Reading Named Ranges in Excel
Worksheet.get_Range Method
If you want to select multiple cell value from Excel sheet, you can
code like this.
Excel.Worksheet excelSheet = workbook.ActiveSheet; Excel.Range
rng = (Excel.Range) excelSheet.get_Range(excelSheet.Cells[1, 1],

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excelSheet.Cells[3,3]);
How to get the range of occupied cells in excel sheet
For reading entire content of an Excel file in C#, we
have to know how many cells used in the Excel file.
In

order

to

find

the

used

range

we

use

"UsedRange" property of xlWorkSheet . A used

range includes any cell that has ever been used. It will return the last
cell of used area.
Excel.Range range ; range = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
namespace WindowsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
{
Excel.Application xlApp ;
Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook ;
Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet ;
Excel.Range range ;
string str;
int rCnt = 0;

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int cCnt = 0;
xlApp = new Excel.Application();
xlWorkBook =
xlApp.Workbooks.Open("csharp.netinformations.xls", 0, true, 5, "", "", true,
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPlatform.xlWindows,
"\t", false, false, 0, true, 1, 0);
xlWorkSheet =
(Excel.Worksheet)xlWorkBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);
range = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
for (rCnt = 1; rCnt <=
range.Rows.Count; rCnt++)
{
for (cCnt = 1; cCnt <=
range.Columns.Count; cCnt++)
{
str = (string)
(range.Cells[rCnt, cCnt] as Excel.Range).Value2 ;
MessageBox.Show(str);
}
}
xlWorkBook.Close(true, null, null);
xlApp.Quit();
releaseObject(xlWorkSheet);
releaseObject(xlWorkBook);
releaseObject(xlApp);
}
private void releaseObject(object obj)
{
try

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{
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(ob
obj = null;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
obj = null;
MessageBox.Show("Unable to
release the Object " + ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
GC.Collect();
}
}
}
}
When you execute this C# source code the program read all used
cells from Excel file.

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