It’s useful to know how to display a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a Visual Basic .NET project for further data manipulation. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application included in the Microsoft Office suite. It provides many useful tools to analyze large amounts of data. Visual Basic is a programming language developed by Microsoft, and it’s favored by many programmers due to its flexibility. In a few steps you can create a Visual Basic project to display contents from an Excel spreadsheet. Imports System.Data.OleDb Dim ds As New DataSet() Dim connectionString As String = “Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;” & _ Dim excelData As New OleDbDataAdapter(“SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]”, connectionString) Me.DataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables(0) Me.Refresh() Press “F5” to run your program and press “Button1” to import the Excel spreadsheet. Writer Bio
