Reading Excel Named Ranges by OLEDB hangs when the source file is open

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Published on 2010-05-06T03:23:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 3:28 UTC
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I am trying to read the Excel Named range using OLEDB using the below code

"Select * from [MyNamedRange1]"

everything works fine only when the source excel sheet is not opened if it is open then i am not able to read the range names using OLEDB it simply hangs

Where as i am able to execute the query

"Select * from [Sheet1$]"

even if the workbook is open or closed... Any work arounds for reading the range by OLEDB only i dont want to go for interop... I have too many ranges defined in the excel file

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