How to Delete a blank excelsheet from a workbook in C#.net

Question

I have an excel workbook which has multiple worksheets being added to it inside a loop from another workbook. I need to identify if the sheet, that is being added to new workbook from an old workbook, is empty/blank then don't add it to the new workbook. I tried using oledbadapter and read the workbook but that opens the workbook during the operation which I'm trying to read. Does anybody have any idea if I can achieve that with the help of an excel inbuilt blank check method.?

Thank you

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no way to check if a sheet inside a workbook is empty or not without opening the file. You wouldn't be able to go by file size, because even a blank workbook will have header information and make the file size greater than zero. Your best bet is to use Excel interop and check the UsedRange.

Hope that helps,

Chris