I am trying to get data to sqlserver2005
on my C#
windows application, from sheet1.xls file through oledb connection in visual studio-2008 and I am using windows7 os and I didn't installed excel on my system.
This is my connection string:
string excelconnectionstring = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" +excelfilepath + ";"+"Extended Properties='Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;'";
I tried many ways but still i am getting this error :
"External table is not in the expected format. "
Please help me.
Use Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0
for excel files
string excelconnectionstring = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" +excelfilepath + ";"+"Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;HDR=Yes";