ExcelApplication.Open(System.IO.Stream)

Description

Opens an Excel workbook from a stream and returns a Workbook object.

Parameters

stream

A System.IO.Stream containing a OOXML format (Excel 2007 or later) .xlsx or BIFF8 format (Excel 97 or later) .xls file.

Returns

A Workbook object representing the file opened.

Exceptions

System.Exception

If the file cannot be found or opened, or if the file is not a OOXML format (Excel 2007 or later) .xlsx or BIFF8 format (Excel 97 or later) .xls file.

Remarks

ExcelWriter supports Excel's OOXML (Excel 2007 or later) and BIFF8 (Excel 97 or later) format only. Do not use this method to open BIFF7 (Excel 95) files.

Examples