Needs simple and usefull API to work with Excel in C#

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Hi everybody!

Please advise me some easy-to-use library to work with Excel in .NET. What I need to do:

1. Create workbook with multiple sheets.
2. Fill it with data.

Don't want to use standard built-in COM library to write lousy code like:

Excel.Workbook wb = 
    ThisApplication.Workbooks.OpenText("C:\\Test.txt", 
    Type.Missing, 3, Excel.XlTextParsingType.xlDelimited, 
    Excel.XlTextQualifier.xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote, 
    Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, True, 
    Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, 
    Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, 
    Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

LINQ to Excel just retreives data and allows to perform queries.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 28-Mar-11 6:53am

Pavel Yermalovich

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[no name] 28-Mar-11 13:18pm

What version(s) of Excel are you supporting? The "lousy" COM code may be all you have.

Pavel Yermalovich 28-Mar-11 13:37pm

It doesn't matter. I need generate at least some Excel version's file. I meant some wrapper for COM. I found different libraries but they generally suports queries but not creating.

R. Giskard Reventlov 28-Mar-11 14:00pm

I think you need to search here and on Google and I'm pretty sure you'll find what you need.

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Excel interop is one of the few places where I'd recommend VB.NET over C# purely because of VB.NET's ability to call method signatures with optional parameters. If you're more comfortable in C#, you can just create a class library in VB to wrap the functionality you want to use and import the library into your C# project.

That being said, there's also this: Excel Reader[^]

Posted 28-Mar-11 8:13am

Rick Shaub

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Jaepetto · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28T08:21:00

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Hi,

i found this one very useful since it does not require to have Excel installed:
http://code.google.com/p/excellibrary/[^]

Posted 28-Mar-11 8:21am

Jaepetto

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Pavel Yermalovich 28-Mar-11 15:13pm

This is what I'm looking for. Thanks.