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I do not feel like reinventing the whole wheel on Windows Store Apps, but is there any readily available way that I am able to parse OpenXML document quickly on Windows Store Apps?

I had been using the OpenXML SDK (currently on 2.5) but it is unfortunately tied with WindowsBase and I can't reference it in my project.

I read somewhere which mentioned that I should be looking at Windows.IO.Packaging, I do understand that OpenXML is a container of all files, but that is "reinventing the whole wheel" to me already, and I need to go down to the file access level to read the WorkBookPart and WorkSheetPart` (... blah blah blah).

Thanks!~

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Apparently I took the chance to learn OpenXML and was able to parse the .XLSX file on my own. It wasn't as difficult as I initially feared. The fact that we can use ZipArchive to help derive the corresponding Sheet, coupling with the use of Linq to Xml means that a custom-made ExcelReader class takes about 1 hour to write.

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