C# read open Excel file through OleDb

I need to connect to an open Excel 2003 file using .NET 3.5

It seems the OleDb connection which I am trying to use wants the file exclusively. But I need to have this file open in Excel in the same time.

Is non-locking reading possible?

EDIT: I resolved this by c开发者_StackOverflow社区opying file before opening it.

the question seems have no answer. and I cant delete it....

my solution was - run macro on timer to save the excel file in question and C# app was copying the file to another one and reading it using OleDb.

This seems like a similar problem: Writing into excel file with OLEDB

Does that work out for you?

What parameters are you passing in when you open the Excel document? Could you set the "ReadOnly" parameter in Workbook.Open() to true? See here.

Refer to the code below how to get the information of Excel data into an array. Then you will perform any validations on that Excel sheet.

var fileName = @"D:\Pavan\WorkDiployed.xlsx";
var connectionString = string.Format("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; data source={0}; Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;", fileName);
OleDbConnection con = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString);
OleDbDataAdapter cmd = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [Sheet1$]", con);

con.Open();
System.Data.DataSet excelDataSet = new DataSet();
cmd.Fill(excelDataSet);
DataTable data = excelDataSet.Tables[0];

DataRow[] arrdata = data.Select();

foreach (DataRow rw in arrdata)
{
    object[] cval = rw.ItemArray;
}           

con.Close();
MessageBox.Show (excelDataSet.Tables[0].ToString ());