Reading and Writing Data Excel File Classic ASP

Question

I want to be able to read from and write to an excel file using Classic ASP stored in my local machine at

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\excel\excel.xls

I tried using the following code:

<% 
' Set Connection Params 
Set oConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.connection") 
oConn.Open "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)}; DriverId=790;" &_ 
"DBQ=c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\excel\excel.xls;" &_ 
"DefaultDir = C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\excel\" 

Set RS=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset") 

' Write the SQL Query 
RS.open "SELECT * FROM my_range", oConn 

do until RS.EOF 
Response.Write ( RS("NAME") & " -- " & RS("EMAIL") & "") 
RS.movenext 
Loop 

'Close the recordset/connection 

RS.Close 
oConn.Close 
Set RS = Nothing 
%> 

Which I got from here

But I got the following error:

    Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

/ASP/excel.asp, line 4

I'm just a beginner with ASP and not sure what to do. Please help out!

Answer 1

1. Is your server a 64 bit machine. If it is you may need to enable 32 bit applications in your application pool

2. You could try one of the connection strings here. http://www.connectionstrings.com/microsoft-jet-ole-db-4-0/

If you have a copy of MS Access I recommend that you import your excel spreadsheet into an Access database and connect to that. Using excel directly as a datasource can be painful.