NPOI
a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop. (by nissl-lab)
DocX
Fast and easy to use .NET library that creates or modifies Microsoft Word files without installing Word. (by xceedsoftware)
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| NPOI | DocX | |
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| 16 | 7 | |
| 5,510 | 1,689 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 9.1 | 6.2 | |
| 2 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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NPOI
Posts with mentions or reviews of NPOI.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-14.
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Is it possible to use Microsoft Word features programatically?
NPOI (Open source, MIT)
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Is MS Word interop dead now on .NET core?
For .NET Core you can use - https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi - https://github.com/Jetro223/DocXNETCore
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What's the best way to read an Excel file into a DataGrid in WinUi 3?
I use NPOI https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi its a popular package for reading Excel. It is both faster than interop and free (open source).
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Help needed with .xlsb files
Have you tried NPOI?
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NPOI Alternative Spreadsheet API Performance Test in C# .NET
Competitor#2 (NPOI - v2.5.6)
- Calling Java from C#
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cannot create an instance of the abstract type or interface. how to solve this ???
If you are trying to *create* Excel files, then you might take a look at [NPOI](https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi) which is also open source with a permissive license. There is also [ClosedXml](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), which has these capabilities.
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Read Data from a Column of an Excel File
I'd like to use NPOI to deal with Excel files. It's open source and you don't have to install Microsoft Office.
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Read uploaded excel file
EPPlus ExcelDataReader NPOI
DocX
Posts with mentions or reviews of DocX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-14.
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Is it possible to use Microsoft Word features programatically?
DocX (by XCeed, open source, non commercial use)
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Bull converting .doc to .docx
If you still want to give it a go yourself, I'd suggest you take a look at the many code samples/API's available in VBA or C#, those could be translated to or used in PoSh. Examples: DocX Aspose.Words GemBox.Document UseOffice.Net
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OfficeIMO - free cross-platform Microsoft Word .NET Library
No I mean https://github.com/xceedsoftware/DocX - I've owned it a few years back, but they changed license now where commercial usage is very restrictive if at all possible, but also it's limited to .NET Framework only.
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Convert .doc to .docx using .NET 6 (not .NET Framework)
Try https://github.com/xceedsoftware/DocX instead of interops.
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Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word ?
I high recommend don't use microsoft interops. There is great word library DocX.
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Which package is the best for working with MS Word (.docx) documents?
Check out the DocX package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/DocX/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NPOI and DocX you can also consider the following projects:
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.
Open XML SDK - Open XML SDK by Microsoft
ExcelDataReader - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files
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
ExcelDna - Excel-DNA - Free and easy .NET for Excel. This repository contains the core Excel-DNA library.
MiniExcel - Fast, Low-Memory, Easy Excel .NET helper to import/export/template spreadsheet (support Linux, Mac)
ShapeCrawler - 🍂 A .NET library for manipulating PowerPoint presentations