.NET Managed Reader for Microsoft® Excel

.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.

Why to use .NET Managed Reader for Microsoft® Excel? There are many reasons for it:

• It is 100% .NET managed set of classes
• Excel 98-2007 XLS and Excel 2007 XLSX file formats support
• No Jet required
• Allows to read individual cells from the spreadsheet using cell index or cell name
• Returns result from each cell in a type defined for the cell
• Faster than Jet or Excel class library