How to open an Excel file in C#?

Imports

 using Excel= Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime;

Here is the code to open an excel sheet using C#.

    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application excel = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook wbv = excel.Workbooks.Open("C:\\YourExcelSheet.xlsx");
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet wx = excel.ActiveSheet as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet;

    wbv.Close(true, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);
    excel.Quit();

Here is a video mate on how to open an excel worksheet using C# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Dnv0tfGv4

You need to have installed Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).

VSTO can be selected in the Visual Studio installer under Workloads > Web & Cloud > Office/SharePoint Development.

After that create a generic .NET project and add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel via 'Add Reference... > Assemblies' dialog.

Application excel = new Application();
Workbook wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(path);

Missing.Value is a special reflection struct for unnecessary parameters replacement

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In newer versions, the assembly reference required is called Microsoft Excel 16.0 Object Library. If you do not have the latest version installed you might have Microsoft Excel 15.0 Object Library, or an older version, but it is the same process to include.

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo("C:\\test\\report.xlsx");
if(fi.Exists)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\test\report.xlsx");
}
else
{
    //file doesn't exist
}

private void btnChoose2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  OpenFileDialog openfileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
  if (openfileDialog1.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
  {
    this.btnChoose2.Text = openfileDialog1.FileName;
    String filename = DialogResult.ToString();

    var excelApp = new Excel.Application();
    excelApp.Visible = true;
    excelApp.Workbooks.Open(btnChoose2.Text);
  }
}