ClosedXML
ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API. (by ClosedXML)
ExcelDna
Excel-DNA - Free and easy .NET for Excel. This repository contains the core Excel-DNA library. (by Excel-DNA)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ClosedXML
Posts with mentions or reviews of ClosedXML.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.
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When XML in Word Became Illegal
It's also country specific.
I work on Excel library and the text to number/date feature was one of less fun things to implement at least semi-correctly.
I remember my comment on the PR back then:
https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML/pull/1899
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Visual Studio C#: Is it possible to manipulate Excel file via Visual Studio
Once installed, you can start using ClosedXML directly in your project. Go through their wiki for some sample codes based on what you are trying to achieve in your app.
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VBA script in Excel runs much slower is Outlook is open
There are alternatives to requiring opening the full Excel application and its resource overhead. Especially given you're simply reading, sorting, and writing. One of the most popular is CloseXML which you add via a NuGet package.
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Any tips on converting a XLSX file to HTML without using a licensed library?
Time to dig into those open xml docs. Honestly it’s not that bad once you get your bearings. ClosedXML offers a somewhat thin wrapper as well. I’ve used these with great success but they are quite low level.
- I need a Data-Grid that I can copy/paste excel data with
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adding cell color in Excel file using c#
ClosedXML is an open wrapper around OOXML.
- How do I get Excel column data type with OpenXml?
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Discovered a NuGet package called ClosedXML. Takes away the pain of dealing with OpenXML
It's open-source: https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML
- Need help with reading files in C#
- Does anyone have an opensource project they'd like a hand with?
ExcelDna
Posts with mentions or reviews of ExcelDna.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
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Excel Add-in
For Excel Add-In in c# i have good experience with ExcelDNA
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Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
Does this use https://excel-dna.net/ behind the scenes?
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Is there a more valuable alternative to VBA?
VBA is a fine language for many Excel tasks and is unlikely to go away any time soon. In terms of alternatives though you might consider the .NET family of languages F# and C# and VB.NET that are used across the software development industry. I am designing an addin that tightly integrates F# as a scripting language to replace many of the capabilities of VBA as well as providing easier access to external data sources. You can check it out at https://www.sharpcells.com If you need to customise the ribbon you could also look at https://excel-dna.net/ which allows you to work with any .NET language with more ability to customise Excel but is not as tightly integrated.
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Issue with .tlb file in Excel
I would suggest to you to take a look into excel-dna, it's a pretty good project to build functions for excel. https://github.com/Excel-DNA/ExcelDna
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Trying VSTO, what to expect?
ExcelDNA is an open source project that takes care of a lot of the complexity of the COM API and lets you use .Net for writing Excel Addins but not for other Office applications. Their latest versions should work with .Net 5+.
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US Equity Index Options Pricing and Scenarios
Not sure why paying for a plug-in that lets you call python functions in excel is still a thing anymore when there’s pretty activity community that integrates excel with .NET. From there it’s easy to use python. https://excel-dna.net
- Trying to combine 2-3 documents sandwiched between 2 pages of an excel spreadsheet, but don't have access to Adobe Acrobat.
- Using C to Create Performant Excel Functions
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Creating an Excel Add-In in D
Yeah, it's practically archaeology now! It is very fast for doing some things, though.
If anyone's interested in it from a Dot Net perspective, ExcelDNA [0] was excellent when I used it a few years ago.
[0] https://excel-dna.net/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ClosedXML and ExcelDna you can also consider the following projects:
Open XML SDK - Open XML SDK by Microsoft
EPPlus
NetOffice - 🌌 Create add-ins and automation code for Microsoft Office applications.
NPOI - a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop.
ExcelDataReader - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files
DocX - Fast and easy to use .NET library that creates or modifies Microsoft Word files without installing Word.
MiniExcel - Fast, Low-Memory, Easy Excel .NET helper to import/export/template spreadsheet (support Linux, Mac)
Report-From-DocX-HTML-To-PDF-Converter - .NET Core library to create custom reports based on Word docx or HTML documents and convert to PDF