excel connection string

Hi,

Follow the below steps
1. Create Excel say TEST.xls in c:\ with some header and rows and columns data in it.
2. Create "Named Object" in excel by select the data in your excel workbook ( select header and data) and then go to menu Insert --> Names --> Define. Name your object and press "Add" Now you have an named object which can be used to read by ADO.NET
3. Below is the code to connect to workbook also to bind to datagridview :)
4. TEST is your "Named Object" in excel use it as table to get data

OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Book1.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0");
            OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from TEST", con);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            da.Fill(dt);
            dataGridView1.DataSource = dt;