Question

I have a C# batch job that needs to connect to an .xslx Excel spreadsheet. On my windows 7 machine, the provider in the connection string is specified as such:

Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0

However, when to job is moved onto the server it will be running on, I get the following error message:

System Exception: The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.; 

The server is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack 2. Does anyone know of a provider that will work on this machine given that the spreadsheet is (and will always be) a 2010 Excel .xslx spreadsheet?

Answer 1

May be this helps:

• http://www.connectionstrings.com/excel-2007 (works also for 2010)
• http://www.xporttools.net/ (3rd party xls(x) provider)