In Building the Importer Web Page and Uploading the Excel Spreadsheet we created
an interface for users to upload an Excel spreadsheet to the web server with the end goal being that a user could import the uploaded spreadsheet's
data into the application database. Before importing the data, it would be prudent to display the contents of the uploaded Excel spreadsheet to give
the user one last time to look over the data and verify that they want to import it.
The contents of an Excel spreadsheet can be programmatically queried with code and syntax similar to that used when querying a "regular" database, like
Microsoft SQL Server. In this article we will see how to bind the contents of the uploaded Excel spreadsheet to a GridView. Read on to learn more!
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