http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2007/02/18/retrieving-information-from-excel-2007-xlsx-files.aspxEver needed a sample code to programmatically extract data from Excel 2007 table? Given an excel table like this (in book1.xlsx): Name ID Color Ball 1 White Phone 2 Green Cup 3 Yellow Here’s a function to retrieve the contents of the table: /// &lt;summary&gt;en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2007/02/18/retrieving-information-from-excel-2007-xlsx-files.aspx#8479291Fri, 09 May 2008 14:05:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8479291Mario<P>Hi,</P> <P>Here you can find article that shows how to read/write to XLSX files without System.IO.Packaging namespace (framework &lt; 3.5): <A href="http://www.gemboxsoftware.com/Excel2007/DemoApp.htm" target=_new rel=nofollow>http://www.gemboxsoftware.com/Excel2007/DemoApp.htm</A>.</P> <P>Mario</P> <P>www.GemBoxSoftware.com</P>http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2007/02/18/retrieving-information-from-excel-2007-xlsx-files.aspx#9825252Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:16:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9825252SimonC<p>Your page does not work in IE8 (without the compatibility button being pushed) :-(</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2007/02/18/retrieving-information-from-excel-2007-xlsx-files.aspx#9830897Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:05:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9830897nikola<p>Hi Mario, thank you for the link!</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/archive/2007/02/18/retrieving-information-from-excel-2007-xlsx-files.aspx#9830900Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:06:44 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9830900nikola<p>Hi Simon, thank you for the note! I think the issue is fixed now, because the page renders fine in the IE8 that I have here (Win 7 RC)...Please let me know if it's still not rendering correctly for you without compatibility mode! Thanks!</p>