New Post: Import subset of Data from Excel

I have just had to implement something like this when we switched from OLE DB to the Excel Data Reader to read Excel files in our product. I modified the Excel Data Reader code to make it possible to:

• read a specific worksheet into a data table (instead of reading the entire workbook into a dataset and then retrieving the data table of interest)
• read a specific cell range from a specific worksheet into a data table
  

I am about to contact the Ian1971 to see if it would be possible to integrate these changes into the Excel Data Reader.