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c#exceloledb

Write Data to Excel using Oledb


Is it possible to write data using Oledb into a common excel ?

There are no table structure or anything, it's a user document.

When I tried, i had always an OleDbException

  • "INSERT" query reply : Operation must use an application that can be updated.
  • "UPDATE" query reply : No value given for one or more required parameters.

My code:

  using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + @"C:\Users\[...]\Classeur.xls" + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=NO;IMEX=1;READONLY=FALSE\""))
        {
            connection.Open();
            OleDbCommand commande = new OleDbCommand(
              "INSERT INTO [Feuil1$](F1,F2,F3) VALUES ('A3','B3','C3');", connection);
            commande.ExecuteNonQuery();

            connection.Close();
            connection.Dispose();
        }

New test (without sucess !) :

       using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + @"C:\Users\[...]\Classeur.xls" + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=NO;IMEX=1;READONLY=FALSE\""))
        {
            string column = "A";
            string row = "1";
            string worksheetName = "Feuil1";
            string data = "TEST";
            connection.Open();
            string commandString = String.Format("UPDATE [{0}${1}{2}:{1}{2}] SET F1='{3}'", worksheetName, column, row, data);
            OleDbCommand commande = new OleDbCommand(
                commandString, connection);
            connection.Close();
            connection.Dispose();
        }

Solution

  • I finally found ! Simple question of IMEX ( So many hours lost for that !)

    So if anyone have the same issue :

     //for reading data 
     Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=NO;IMEX=1;READONLY=FALSE\"
    
     //for writing data 
     Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=NO;IMEX=3;READONLY=FALSE\"