İnterop or oledb for excel manipulation with C# ?

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Hello everyone,
I am working on a project for manipulate excel datas.

I have an excel report from a machine gives me this data automatically. But this data needs to be manipulate and edit.

I want to a program for do this automatically.

Now i have 2 excel file. One of them from machine, other one is edited template. I want to find the right data from machine's excels and write to template. I can use id option for the find the data. And when i find the data, i need to write this data to template on the same id column.

I look at the articles and there is 2 main way to do it. One of them Interop and other way is the use OleDb.

Now, excel's versions can be change on other computers, so which way is the better for do this ?

Thank you.

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I looked the articles on the web.

Posted 10-Feb-17 22:31pm

kozmikadam

Updated 10-Feb-17 22:40pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-10T22:40:00

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Interop requires Microsoft Office installed on the machine that is running your app - if it isn't installed, then Interop will not work at all. On that basis, OleDB would be a better option for a generic operation.

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However, I don't use either for reading: c# - Read data from an Excel file - Stack Overflow[^] - see the Velkumar solution, it works very nicely.
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Posted 10-Feb-17 22:40pm

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Updated 10-Feb-17 22:43pm

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kozmikadam 12-Feb-17 4:33am

Hi,
i'm using OleDB for my project. I want to ask, is there any other way for update data from datagridview to excel or need i use oledb command for that ? ? i don't want to create a new excel file, i want to edit old one which i imported it to datagridview.