Hellllo everyone.
i want to know that how to open a excel file in c# and how to copy the excel file data to the clipboard.
thanx

Please do a search on the forum. There are more than plenty examples of opening spreadsheets - and how to get/use data within them

OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="+filename+";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0");
            con.Open();
            try
            {
                //Create Dataset and fill with imformation from the Excel Spreadsheet for easier reference
                DataSet myDataSet = new DataSet();
                OleDbDataAdapter myCommand = new OleDbDataAdapter(" SELECT * FROM ["+listname+"$]" , con);
                myCommand.Fill(myDataSet);
                con.Close();
                richTextBox1.AppendText("\nDataSet Filled");

                //Travers through each row in the dataset
                foreach (DataRow myDataRow in myDataSet.Tables[0].Rows)
                {
                    //Stores info in Datarow into an array
                    Object[] cells = myDataRow.ItemArray;
                    //Traverse through each array and put into object cellContent as type Object
                    //Using Object as for some reason the Dataset reads some blank value which
                    //causes a hissy fit when trying to read. By using object I can convert to
                    //String at a later point.
                    foreach (object cellContent in cells)
                    {
                        //Convert object cellContect into String to read whilst replacing Line Breaks with a defined character
                        string cellText = cellContent.ToString();
                        cellText = cellText.Replace("\n", "|");
                        //Read the string and put into Array of characters chars
                        richTextBox1.AppendText("\n"+cellText);
                    }
                }
                //Thread.Sleep(15000);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
                //Thread.Sleep(15000);
            }
            finally
            {
                con.Close();
            }

credit to the original user.....

Hope it helps u:cool:

i want to pass csv file as an argument to excel application and want to see it display the results. there will be a button "export to excel" written on it, then it will open excel file with the values that is supplied to it as comma seperated strings.

i found a work around :
i read the values from the listview control and create an excel document with it as follows :

Excel.Application app = new Excel.Application();
			app.Visible = true;
			Excel.Workbook wb = app.Workbooks.Add(1);
			Excel.Worksheet ws = (Excel.Worksheet)wb.Worksheets[1];
			int i = 1;
			int i2 = 1;
			foreach (ListViewItem lvi in listLogs.Items)
			{
				i = 1;
				foreach (ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lvs in lvi.SubItems)
				{
					ws.Cells[i2, i] = lvs.Text;
					i++;
				}
				i2++;
			}

i forgot to say you need to add reference to Excel object libraries 11 under COM section.

if the user does not have excel installed then you can save the listview as csv file :

saveLogsDialog.Filter = "csv files (*.csv)|*.csv";
			saveLogsDialog.FileName = "logs";
			saveLogsDialog.Title = "Export to Excel";
			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
			foreach (ColumnHeader ch in listLogs.Columns)
			{
				sb.Append(ch.Text + ",");
			}
			sb.AppendLine();
			foreach (ListViewItem lvi in listLogs.Items)
			{
				foreach (ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lvs in lvi.SubItems)
				{
					if (lvs.Text.Trim() == string.Empty)
						sb.Append(" ,");
					else
						sb.Append(lvs.Text + ",");
				}
				sb.AppendLine();
			}
			DialogResult dr = saveLogsDialog.ShowDialog();
			if (dr == DialogResult.OK)
			{
				StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(saveLogsDialog.FileName);
				sw.Write(sb.ToString());
				sw.Close();
			}
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