Columns Containing Non-Strongly Typed Data

If all values in the columns of a worksheet are not strongly typed (that means the values in a column may have the different data types) then we can export the worksheet content by calling the ExportDataTableAsString method of the Cells class. ExportDataTableAsString method takes the same set of parameters as that of ExportDataTable method to export worksheet data as DataTable object.

 //Creating a file stream containing the Excel file to be opened

FileStream fstream = new FileStream(FOD_OpenFile.FileName, FileMode.Open);

//Instantiating a Workbook object

//Opening the Excel file through the file stream

Workbook workbook = new Workbook(fstream);

//Accessing the first worksheet in the Excel file

Worksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

//Exporting the contents of 2 rows and 2 columns starting from 1st cell to DataTable

DataTable dataTable = worksheet.Cells.ExportDataTableAsString(0, 0, 2, 2, true);

//Binding the DataTable with DataGrid

dataGridView2.DataSource = dataTable;

//Closing the file stream to free all resources

fstream.Close();

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