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Interop.Excel question

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TeaAddictedGeek

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I'm working with Excel 2003 and .NET 1.1 using the Interop.Excel functionality. It seems to me that there is no way to grab whether or not the Excel range.Cells is a Date value versus a number. Is this really the case, and if not, what functionality am I somehow missing?

I've looked at the "Get_Type" but it returns a String for the .Text field (obviously) and a Double for .Value2, which it returns as a mess of numbers that apparently only Excel can understand.

Is there any way to test for a Date value from a returned Excel field in C# straight from the Range.Cells object versus using C# to test the .Text value? So far I've only found "NumberFormat" which can be any mess of date formats and no clean way of determining if it's a date format or not (ie., could be m/d/yyyy, mm/d/yy, etc.).


Thanks!

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