有没有一种方法可以将.xlsx和.xls文件转换为CODE中制表符分隔的文本文件

Question

I'm writing a WCF service which accepts an an Excel file (xls/xlsx) as a byte array, and now I need to convert it into a format I can read. Earlier I had tried this using Interop.Excel, but this was working only on my local machine, and Not on the server. Apparently I needed MS Excel installed on my server, which is not recommended. I have 2 options-

1. either use a third party library to read the byte excel file
2. convert the byte file to a text format and read it from there(this is already written in my service)

I'm trying to go with #2 for now. Any ideas as to how I can begin with this

Answer 1

I think you should give a try to the option of the Interop.Excel referenced on the server, if you know that everyone using the service will be using a Windows OS and they have the same office version.

Good luck!