read .xlsx without Excel and OLEDB

Question

Is there any chance to read .xlsx files in C# without having Excel installed on the client, and with no OLEDB connection available?

The application is a Winforms project written in VS2005 C# .NET Framework 2.0.

Answer 1

Have a look at excellibrary. For now it supports only xls, but xlsx support is planned for the future.

Answer 2

This question looks to be similar to this one no?

Have you checked NPOI ?

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Answer 3

How about this one here:

EPPlus-Create advanced Excel 2007 spreadsheets on the server

EPPlus is a .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007 files using the Open Office Xml format (xlsx). EPPlus supports ranges, cell styling, charts, pictures, shapes, named ranges, autofilters and a lot of other stuff.

Answer 4

Koogra can read .xlsx files.

Answer 5

NPOI's latest version support both xsl and xslx. Download it from

NPOI 2.0 and use NPOI.XSSF.UserModel.XSSFWorkbook fro xlsx.

Answer 6

We use NPOI successfully in our projects.