Question

What is the correct protocol to get a date or numeric value out of an excel spreadsheet. I have date values inside of an excel spreadsheet. For instance, One column has 5/10/1973
When I add a watch to what is being pulled back using this code…

     wkSheet.get_Range("E" + row, "E" + row).Value2

The value that is returned is 26794.0?

Obviously, that is not what I am looking for. So how do I properly get the value out of an excel spreadsheet. I will continue to look for an answer to this, and hopefully I will be answering my own question.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Ahhah!

  wkSheet.get_Range("E" + row, "E" + row).Text

Gives you back the actual string that the user see. You can then parse using

DateTime.Parse(string)

Thanks for the help fellow stack overflow users!