.NET Managed Reader for Microsoft® Excel is a set of the classes, designed to read Microsoft® Excel files from .NET applications. To provide familiar feel and look for the developers and allow future extension of the component, current version of the .NET Managed Reader for Microsoft® Excel implemented as a .NET Managed Provider with the read-only capabilities and allows to read the data from the native Microsoft® Excel files without using any additional providers or Microsoft® Excel. .NET Managed Reader for Microsoft® Excel is a 100% .NET managed code and designed to achieve the best performance with the minimal usage of the RAM.