Hi All,

We are investigating creating an application in C++ that can find all the Excel sheets on our network and make a database of all the properties in the xls files but as we have many hundreds of thousands of the xls files we would like to be able to do this without using Excel to open the files.

At this stage this is a preliminary investigation but would appreciate any advice or direction if anyone has gone down this route. Are there any libraries/routines that could be used to help do this?

Look forward to getting some feedback. Thanks