I Hate Microsoft’s Excel.Interop library, here is what I use instead
Reading Excel files in C# should be easy. So I thought. But if you google “How to read Excel files in C#”, you get the most complicated and frustrating code examples.
This is the top google result (!!!) — WTF ….
Top Google Result for “How to read Excel file in C#”: What the hell! I just want to read a simple Excel spreadsheet. Now I have to worry about Releasing COM objects ?!?
After some painstaking research & trying multiple libraries, I finally came across a library I really like…ExcelMapper. It is concise and easy to work with. Exactly what I was looking for.
Compare the above code to this line of beauty!
ExcelMapper — simple, concise
Aahh. Sigh of relief!
I even went through the effort of creating my first ever YouTube video on this. (Side note: It took me a LOT longer to do a video than I imagined. Any constructive :) criticism is appreciated)
