SSIS Import Excel Cell Properties

Question

I'd like to use SSIS to import MS Excel Properties - e.g. Color for each cell. 
Does anyone have an example of this - values are straightforward, but cell properties are not.
Thank you,
John

Answer 1

Thank you - this is a great start.
The above is a great example using SSIS  Script Component - and part of this concept should work. If I use it like it's written I will need about 3600 variables for a 60column by 60 row spreadsheet.
I'm wondering if I can do a loop and If clause to retrieve only those cell references- that specifically meet cell color fill criteria (ie Interior.ColorIndex=7) and put those Cell References either in an array (probably easiest) which can be parsed
later from SQL Server.
This is what I have come up with sans loop/array.
' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Component
' Write scripts using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008.
' ScriptMain is the entry point class of the script.
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
<Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.SSISScriptComponentEntryPointAttribute> _
<CLSCompliant(False)> _
Public Class ScriptMain
Inherits UserComponent
Public Overrides Sub PreExecute()
MyBase.PreExecute()
' Add your code here for preprocessing or remove if not needed
End Sub
Public Overrides Sub PostExecute()
MyBase.PostExecute()
' Add your code here for postprocessing or remove if not needed
' You can set read/write variables here, for example:
' Me.Variables.MyIntVar = 100
End Sub
Public Overrides Sub CreateNewOutputRows()
Dim oExcel As Object = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Dim FileName As String
FileName = Variables.FileName
Dim oBook As Object = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(FileName)
Dim oSheet As Object = oBook.Worksheets(1)
Output0Buffer.AddRow()
' This will take too many rows.
Output0Buffer.Address = oSheet.Range("B4").Interior.ColorIndex
End Sub
End Class
John