How to get only those colums in a EXCEL worksheet that have a value

Question

I am programatically reading an Excel file in C#.

When I use Excel.Worksheet.Columns.columns.count, I get a value above 16,000.

But my excel sheet has only 15 columns. How do I get only those columns that have a value?

Answer 1

Here is how I usually do this:

Excel.Application demoApp= new Excel.Application();
demoApp.Workbooks.Open(fileName);
int rowCount = demoApp.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count;
int colCount = demoApp.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count;

so, the key is to use UsedRange, I hope this will help.