As Janoulle pointed out, you don't need to detect which extension it is if you use the WorkbookFactory, it will do it for you. I recently had to implement a solution using NPOI to read Excel files and import email addresses into a sql database. My main problem was that I was probably going to receive about 12 different Excel layouts from different customers so I needed something that could be changed quickly without much code. I ended up using Npoi.Mapper which is an awesome tool! Highly recommended!
Here is my complete solution:
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using Npoi.Mapper;
using Npoi.Mapper.Attributes;
using NPOI.SS.UserModel;
namespace JobCustomerImport.Processors
{
public class ExcelEmailProcessor
{
private UserManagementServiceContext DataContext { get; }
public ExcelEmailProcessor(int customerNumber)
{
DataContext = new UserManagementServiceContext();
}
public void Execute(string localPath, int sheetIndex)
{
IWorkbook workbook;
using (FileStream file = new FileStream(localPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
workbook = WorkbookFactory.Create(file);
}
var importer = new Mapper(workbook);
var items = importer.Take<MurphyExcelFormat>(sheetIndex);
foreach(var item in items)
{
var row = item.Value;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(row.EmailAddress))
continue;
UpdateUser(row);
}
DataContext.SaveChanges();
}
private void UpdateUser(MurphyExcelFormat row)
{
//LOGIC HERE TO UPDATE A USER IN DATABASE...
}
private class MurphyExcelFormat
{
[Column("District")]
public int District { get; set; }
[Column("DM")]
public string FullName { get; set; }
[Column("Email Address")]
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
[Column(3)]
public string Username { get; set; }
public string FirstName
{
get
{
return Username.Split('.')[0];
}
}
public string LastName
{
get
{
return Username.Split('.')[1];
}
}
}
}
}
I am so happy with NPOI + Npoi.Mapper (from Donny Tian) as an Excel import solution that I wrote a blog post about it, going in to more detail about this code above. You can read it here if you wish: Easiest way to import excel files. The best thing about this solution is that it runs perfectly in a serverless azure/cloud environment which I couldn't get with other Excel tools/libraries.