title: ReplaceMent for Jet Excel Database Connection?
body: <p>I have quite an old code that should run on modern machines. The purpose of that code is to read Excel Files and do some fancy stuff with it.</p>
  
  <p>The Connection-string to the Excel-file is the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private static readonly string CONNECTION_STRING_TEMPL =
  "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OleDb.4.0; data source={0}; Extended
  Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1;\"";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now it looks like modern OSses (especially 64bit) do not like Jet.OleDB that much. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a more "modern" driver I can use as a replacement just by changing the connection string? (I do not want to completely rewrite the Code using state-of-ther-art techniques.</p>