I need a way to read a Excel file from a stream. It doesn't seem to work with the ADO.NET way of doing things.
The scenario is that a user uploads a file through a FileUpload and i need to read some values from the file and import to a database.
For several reasons I can't save the file to disk, and there is no reason to do so either.
So, anyone know of a way to read a Excel file from a FileUpload stream?
It seems i found a soultion to the problem myself.
http://www.codeplex.com/ExcelDataReader
This library seems to work nicely and it takes a stream to read the excel file.
ExcelDataReader reader = new ExcelDataReader(ExcelFileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream);