I haven't done this in a while and didn't do it much, but can you use ADO to access the Excel file?

Learn how to use the ClosedXML NuGet package to export data as a CSV or XLSX file for Excel from an ASP.NET Core application. When building web applications, you will often need to import or export ...

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