Using Excel OleDb to get sheet names IN SHEET ORDER

Since above code do not cover procedures for extracting list of sheet name for Excel 2007,following code will be applicable for both Excel(97-2003) and Excel 2007 too:

public List<string> ListSheetInExcel(string filePath)
{
   OleDbConnectionStringBuilder sbConnection = new OleDbConnectionStringBuilder();
   String strExtendedProperties = String.Empty;
   sbConnection.DataSource = filePath;
   if (Path.GetExtension(filePath).Equals(".xls"))//for 97-03 Excel file
   {
      sbConnection.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0";
      strExtendedProperties = "Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1";//HDR=ColumnHeader,IMEX=InterMixed
   }
   else if (Path.GetExtension(filePath).Equals(".xlsx"))  //for 2007 Excel file
   {
      sbConnection.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0";
      strExtendedProperties = "Excel 12.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1";
   }
   sbConnection.Add("Extended Properties",strExtendedProperties);
   List<string> listSheet = new List<string>();
   using (OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(sbConnection.ToString()))
   {
     conn.Open();
     DataTable dtSheet = conn.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, null);         
     foreach (DataRow drSheet in dtSheet.Rows)
     {
        if (drSheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString().Contains("$"))//checks whether row contains '_xlnm#_FilterDatabase' or sheet name(i.e. sheet name always ends with $ sign)
        {
             listSheet.Add(drSheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString());
        } 
     }
  }
 return listSheet;
}

Above function returns list of sheet in particular excel file for both excel type(97,2003,2007).

This is short, fast, safe, and usable...

public static List<string> ToExcelsSheetList(string excelFilePath)
{
    List<string> sheets = new List<string>();
    using (OleDbConnection connection = 
            new OleDbConnection((excelFilePath.TrimEnd().ToLower().EndsWith("x")) 
            ? "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source='" + excelFilePath + "';" + "Extended Properties='Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES;'"
            : "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source='" + excelFilePath + "';Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"))
    {
        connection.Open();
        DataTable dt = connection.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, null);
        foreach (DataRow drSheet in dt.Rows)
            if (drSheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString().Contains("$"))
            {
                string s = drSheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString();
                sheets.Add(s.StartsWith("'")?s.Substring(1, s.Length - 3): s.Substring(0, s.Length - 1));
            }
        connection.Close();
    }
    return sheets;
}

Can you not just loop through the sheets from 0 to Count of names -1? that way you should get them in the correct order.

Edit

I noticed through the comments that there are a lot of concerns about using the Interop classes to retrieve the sheet names. Therefore here is an example using OLEDB to retrieve them:

/// <summary>
/// This method retrieves the excel sheet names from 
/// an excel workbook.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="excelFile">The excel file.</param>
/// <returns>String[]</returns>
private String[] GetExcelSheetNames(string excelFile)
{
    OleDbConnection objConn = null;
    System.Data.DataTable dt = null;

    try
    {
        // Connection String. Change the excel file to the file you
        // will search.
        String connString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + 
          "Data Source=" + excelFile + ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;";
        // Create connection object by using the preceding connection string.
        objConn = new OleDbConnection(connString);
        // Open connection with the database.
        objConn.Open();
        // Get the data table containg the schema guid.
        dt = objConn.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, null);

        if(dt == null)
        {
           return null;
        }

        String[] excelSheets = new String[dt.Rows.Count];
        int i = 0;

        // Add the sheet name to the string array.
        foreach(DataRow row in dt.Rows)
        {
           excelSheets[i] = row["TABLE_NAME"].ToString();
           i++;
        }

        // Loop through all of the sheets if you want too...
        for(int j=0; j < excelSheets.Length; j++)
        {
            // Query each excel sheet.
        }

        return excelSheets;
   }
   catch(Exception ex)
   {
       return null;
   }
   finally
   {
      // Clean up.
      if(objConn != null)
      {
          objConn.Close();
          objConn.Dispose();
      }
      if(dt != null)
      {
          dt.Dispose();
      }
   }
}

Extracted from Article on the CodeProject.

Can't find this in actual MSDN documentation, but a moderator in the forums said

I am afraid that OLEDB does not preserve the sheet order as they were in Excel

Excel Sheet Names in Sheet Order

Seems like this would be a common enough requirement that there would be a decent workaround.