Read Excel as DataTable using OpenXML and C#
July 11, 2014 by Anuraj
.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 .Net 4.0 ASP.Net ASP.Net MVC
In the current project we were using OpenXML extensively for reading Excel files. Here is the code snippet, which will help you to read / convert Excel files to DataTable.
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet;
public static DataTable ReadAsDataTable(string fileName)
{
DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
using (SpreadsheetDocument spreadSheetDocument = SpreadsheetDocument.Open(fileName, false))
{
WorkbookPart workbookPart = spreadSheetDocument.WorkbookPart;
IEnumerable<Sheet> sheets = spreadSheetDocument.WorkbookPart.Workbook.GetFirstChild<Sheets>().Elements<Sheet>();
string relationshipId = sheets.First().Id.Value;
WorksheetPart worksheetPart = (WorksheetPart)spreadSheetDocument.WorkbookPart.GetPartById(relationshipId);
Worksheet workSheet = worksheetPart.Worksheet;
SheetData sheetData = workSheet.GetFirstChild<SheetData>();
IEnumerable<Row> rows = sheetData.Descendants<Row>();
foreach (Cell cell in rows.ElementAt(0))
{
dataTable.Columns.Add(GetCellValue(spreadSheetDocument, cell));
}
foreach (Row row in rows)
{
DataRow dataRow = dataTable.NewRow();
for (int i = 0; i < row.Descendants<Cell>().Count(); i++)
{
dataRow[i] = GetCellValue(spreadSheetDocument, row.Descendants<Cell>().ElementAt(i));
}
dataTable.Rows.Add(dataRow);
}
}
dataTable.Rows.RemoveAt(0);
return dataTable;
}
private static string GetCellValue(SpreadsheetDocument document, Cell cell)
{
SharedStringTablePart stringTablePart = document.WorkbookPart.SharedStringTablePart;
string value = cell.CellValue.InnerXml;
if (cell.DataType != null && cell.DataType.Value == CellValues.SharedString)
{
return stringTablePart.SharedStringTable.ChildElements[Int32.Parse(value)].InnerText;
}
else
{
return value;
}
}
Happy Programming :)
Update : Previous code snippet had some problem, now I fixed it.
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