>I posted on this yesterday, and only Michel responded. However I am behind schedule on this and I just don't have the time to convert his VB classs to C#, then debug//test, all in the hopes it might solve this.
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>I'm reading an Excel file into a dataset. The entire file comes into the DS with one exception. There are multiple date columns. The first
>date column comes in as DateTime. No problem there. All remaining date columns are empty. When I open the file as a CSV, the
>other date columns look like dates. I thought I would import the CSV in, but there are commas in the data.
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>I have no idea why this is happening. Anyone seen this before?

No (don't mean 'No - no-one has seen this', just 'No - I haven't seen this :-}). But can you email or attach a copy of the Excel file with just some sample rows?