I have an app that's reading in excel data using JET/ACE OleDB in C#. I'm using column numbers stored in the database to read in the data from these sheeets.
Everything work fine, except for one file in particular that has a blank first column (why they choose to leave it blank is beyond me). ADO.Net is ignoring the first column, and it's throwing everything out of whack. If I type anything into a cell in the first column this problem goes away, but is there any other workaround?
FYI IMEX is set to 1, TypeGuessRows is set to 0 and ImportMixedTypes is set to Text in the registry.
