Question

I am trying to read an xls file in the column format:

File Name    File Size
Hello           45
World           11

I want to read all the first name column entries as a list of strings and all the file size column entries as a list of ints. How can i do this? I have the following code:

    OleDbDataReader reader;
    OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + xlsFilePath + ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0");
    OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand("select * from [sheet1$]", con);

    con.Open();

Answer 1

use this query:

OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand("select [File Size] from [sheet1$]", con);