VB import Text file into Excel\VB - vb.net

Question

I have the following text file which I'm trying to automate into a line Graph in excel.. which logs every 5 minutes up until from 08:00 till 18:00 so there is quite a few rows
TIME Rec-Created Rec-Deleted Rec-Updated Rec-read Rec-wait Committed bi- writes Bi-reads DB-Writes DB-READ db-access Checkpoints Flushed
08:09:00 37 0 5 21276 0 1894 33 3 109 43 47691 1 0
08:14:00 49 0 144 20378 0 1225 143 0 88 192 53377 0 0
08:19:00 44 0 237 19902 0 1545 283 6 317 120 49668 2 0
08:24:00 51 0 129 12570 0 626 191 3 164 58 37811 1 0
08:29:00 61 0 49 14138 0 541 86 3 116 77 36836 1 0
08:34:00 59 0 144 58536 0 1438 209 3 143 3753 135427 1 0
08:39:00 85 0 178 28309 0 1822 209 6 209 80 70950 2 0
08:44:00 57 0 157 17940 0 554 132 3 170 92 47561 1 0
08:49:00 115 0 217 29961 0 1867 186 3 333 193 76057 1 0
08:54:00 111 0 225 23320 0 540 198 6 275 246 64138 2 0
08:59:00 41 0 152 15638 0 359 187 3 368 103 44558 1 0
I'm not too concerned about the Line graph part but more the trying to get the data into excel in the correct format.
I'm assuming I would need to use an array, but currently that is little advanced for me at the moment as Im still trying to get to grips VB and this is really my first venture into this world...(as you can see from my previous post)
any help or guidance would be appreciated..
(im studying the VB for Dummies and Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners from the channel9 MSDN)
thanks in advance

Answer 1

I would probably create typed dataset, with all of your columns. Lets call it YourDataset.
Then read the file in and add rows to your table for each row in the file. Not fully functional but an outline of a solution.
dim typedDataset = new YourDataset
Using reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader("file.txt")
line = reader.ReadLine
dim rowData = line.Split(" ")
'add a new row to typed dataset based on data above
End Using
That is how you would get your data into vb.net, it would be sitting in a table just like the excel table, at that point if you didn't care about excel you could use a graphing control like on this page. And see it with a datagrid view https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd489237(v=vs.140).aspx
But going to excel you would need to follow a guide like the one I have in the following link. You need to use the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/669509/How-to-Export-Data-to-Excel-in-VB-NET