If you are not going to pay for it, then OLEDB is your only option, and
for highly formatted sheets, I don't know how well it will work.
Other than that, Aspose.Cells is one of the few options out there.
If you are using Excel 2003 and up (maybe XP, I don't know), then you
could have them save the Excel sheet as XML, and process that.
Hope this helps.
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hi everyone,
is this possible? I know there are third party tools such as
Aspose.Cells for .NET, but do you know of any cost-free alternatives?
should mention using OLEDB is not a preferred option.
thx a mil