In this post, you’ll learn about the error message “FileCorrupt – The file you selected cannot be opened because it is corrupt, protected by Information Rights Management, or in a file format not supported by Excel Services. Excel may be able to open this file.” that you usually receive when working eith the Excel Services in SharePoint.
When working with SharePoint Excel Services, there are error codes that are generated in the SOAP exception when the errors occur in the Excel Services. You can use the SubCode property that is available in the SoapException class to identity these error codes and troubleshoot the issue.
Error Message
FileCorrupt – The file you selected cannot be opened because it is corrupt, protected by Information Rights Management, or in a file format not supported by Excel Services. Excel may be able to open this file.
Reason for the Error
A call to the OpenWorkbook method failed because the file is corrupted.
Solution
Try to open the file again, or use Excel to open the file.
