Converting an Excel file into a CSV with the DI API

Hello everyone,
it's my first post and also my first project with SBO, As the topic's header implies I have to write a program which converts an excel sheet into a CSV file, I have been reading a little about the DI API, and I would like to have further information about how to use the DI to access file data and/or alter it, other than what is already listed in the tutorials.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Amin,
Unfortunately I am not aware of any way to this using only the DI API, it will be neccesary to include some other APIs or manual work.
Off the top of my head I can only think of two workarounds to this:
- Using the recordset and Excel combined. Read all the data from one column in a table and write it to a column in an Excel file possibly using a loop. Once the process of copying all desired columns and their data is complete, save the file as .csv using the excel API. I'm afraid I don't have an example of this. (It also may be possible using Microsofts SMO or another database API rather than the recordset.)
With this approach the drawback is it might take a long time to figure out and develop in the short term, but in the long term would save alot of manual work as it could be automatic.
- The alternative is unfortunately a manual approach: Simply run a query on the table, and then copy all the values from a column and paste it into the excel file.
This has no short term work but is alot of manual work in the long term.
Hope this is useful,
Regards,
Niall

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