Open XML SDK
Open XML SDK by Microsoft (by dotnet)
ExcelDataReader
Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files (by ExcelDataReader)
| Open XML SDK | ExcelDataReader | |
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| 24 | 11 | |
| 4,305 | 4,240 | |
| 0.5% | 0.5% | |
| 8.1 | 8.3 | |
| 5 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
Open XML SDK
Posts with mentions or reviews of Open XML SDK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-23.
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Top 5 C# PPT Libraries .NET Developers Should Be Familiar With
Open XML SDK is an open-source PowerPoint Interop Library that provides a low-level API for working with Microsoft PowerPoint files. It enables modifying existing PowerPoint files, making it a good option for applications that require direct XML manipulation of PowerPoint documents.
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Libcurl
While it doesn't appear to have been updated in many years, Microsoft built a similarly useful tool[1] that lets you browse the structure of a given Office document and see C# code that generates various components of it.
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK/releases/tag/v2.5
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Is it possible to use Microsoft Word features programatically?
If you use this check out the productivity tool, it will convert a word doc to csharp for you. https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK/releases/tag/v2.5
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Go library that supports extraction and generation of word documents with complex formulae, equations, tables and images.
You’re looking for OpenXML handling. C# probably has the best support, since there’s a Microsoft supported SDK - https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK
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If you had to pick a library from another language (Rust, JS, etc.) that isn’t currently available in Python and have it instantly converted into Python for you to use, what would it be?
https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK Yeah, it can be kind of wrapped with pythonnet and stuff. But having it totally pyhtonized would be sooooo great.
- Creating a Web App using Excel
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Count lines, words, and characters of a MS Word file? ( i.e. Test1.docx )
As an alternative, you could use the Powershell module Open-XML-SDK or PSwriteWord, or PSWriteOffice
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OpenXml throws a different exception given identical code and similar build configuration for two distinct solutions. Why?
PackageLoader was introduced in https://github.com/OfficeDev/Open-XML-SDK/commit/522200f65b9182f65a112130f830403467f54936
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Programatically replacing text in docx
In the official GitHub repository you will find similar tools listed, if you have a very particular requirement not fulfilled by OpenXML SDK.
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Formatting issues from Mac to Windows
Or alternatively you can create a .NET application using the Open XML SDK that does the same thing.
ExcelDataReader
Posts with mentions or reviews of ExcelDataReader.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.
- Use spreadsheet as data source?
- Creating a Web App using Excel
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C# Excel Interop quit and releasecomobjects after the user closed excel
https://github.com/ExcelDataReader/ExcelDataReader works with all versions
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What's the best way to read an Excel file into a DataGrid in WinUi 3?
ExcelDataReader is the way forward. I dont know what you mean when you say??
- Easiest Way to Read and Import Excel File Data into DataTable C#
- Dot net libraries/tools that are usefull in many projects
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Read Excel file in .NET 6 deployed on Linux?
Have you tried https://github.com/ExcelDataReader/ExcelDataReader ?
- Coming from Python and wondering if I should use Pandas.NET or learn built-in Dataframe stuff
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.NET MiniExcel simple and efficient Excel tool to avoid OOM(out of memory).
ExcelDataReader
- How should I go about reading excel data and converting it to JSON in C#?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Open XML SDK and ExcelDataReader you can also consider the following projects:
NPOI - a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop.
EPPlus
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.