ExcelDna vs NetOffice

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ExcelDna		NetOffice
	Project
11	Mentions	1
1,233	Stars	666
2.7%	Growth	2.0%
8.6	Activity	7.7
8 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C#	Language	C#
zlib License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

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.

Excel Add-in
1 project | /r/VisualStudio | 5 Mar 2023

For Excel Add-In in c# i have good experience with ExcelDNA
Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2023

Does this use https://excel-dna.net/ behind the scenes?
Is there a more valuable alternative to VBA?
1 project | /r/excel | 15 Dec 2022

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.
Issue with .tlb file in Excel
2 projects | /r/csharp | 9 Dec 2022

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
Trying VSTO, what to expect?
1 project | /r/vba | 18 Oct 2022

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+.
US Equity Index Options Pricing and Scenarios
2 projects | /r/quant | 12 Oct 2022

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.
1 project | /r/vba | 28 Jan 2022
Using C to Create Performant Excel Functions
3 projects | /r/excel | 27 Jul 2021
Creating an Excel Add-In in D
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2021

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/

NetOffice

Posts with mentions or reviews of NetOffice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-07.

C# Net6 - Convert XLS to XLSB - Open Source (Free) only.
4 projects | /r/csharp | 7 Oct 2022

Do you mean NetOffice?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ExcelDna and NetOffice you can also consider the following projects:

EPPlus

NPOI - a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop.

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.

Open XML SDK - Open XML SDK by Microsoft

DocX - Fast and easy to use .NET library that creates or modifies Microsoft Word files without installing Word.

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