.NET Excel framework is a high-performance and feature-rich to work with Microsoft Excel. This framework has an Excel creation and editing library that allows you to create, read, and edit Microsoft Excel files in any .NET application. It offers an Excel-inspired Spreadsheet UI control to create, edit, view, and format Excel documents. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert Excel files to PDF, images, and more.
There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes Excel Library very cost-effective.
It is optimized for usage in a server environment where speed and low memory usage are critical.
All the elements in a typical Excel document such as text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.
Over more than 15 years, Syncfusion’s Excel Library has become mature and proven product.
The Syncfusion’s Excel Library comes with extensive documentation, knowledge bases, and samples.
Use a single API across all platforms.
Syncfusion's Excel Library is a high-performance .NET Excel library that allows users to create, read, edit, and protect Excel documents in .NET applications without Microsoft Office or interop dependencies.
Import data from various data sources, collection objects, and HTML tables. Also, export data to data tables, collection objects, and nested classes.
Excel Library supports 80+ charts to visualize data. Similarly, sparklines are supported to visualize data within a cell.
More than 400 Excel functions are supported to evaluate formula cells quickly. Add-in functions, external formulas, and an array of formulas are also supported.
Import data to Excel worksheets like mail merge in a Word document. Customized data importing is also supported.
Use various cell and text formatting options along with advanced conditional formatting features to modify the appearance of the data.
Perform various kinds of data processing such as data validation, sorting, and filtering.
Pivot tables and pivot charts are widely used in the Spreadsheet control due to their ease-of-use in summarizing data. Syncfusion’s Excel Library allows you to create and edit them with a few lines of code.
Encrypt or decrypt password-protected Excel files. Also, protect workbooks, worksheets, and cells from editing. You can make your Excel worksheets accessible to others with restricted access while also preventing unnecessary data loss or modifications using Excel Protected View.
Create and edit various form controls, autoshapes, and comments.
For more information, check out Syncfusion’s Excel Library features:
.NET Framework Excel Library
.NET Core Excel Library
UWP Excel Library
Xamarin Excel Library
Blazor Excel Library
WinUI Excel Library
Flutter Excel Library
.NET MAUI Excel Library
The Spreadsheet control provides a Microsoft Excel-like control with major features of Microsoft Excel, including editing, formulas, charting, importing, and exporting.
Open and save large Excel files in less time with minimal memory consumption. Experience smooth scrolling even with many cells in a view.
Import and edit existing Excel files in the Spreadsheet control. Spreadsheets can be exported to XLS, XLSX, CSV, and PDF file formats.
Spreadsheet supports charts and sparklines. Visualize data easily.
More than 400 Excel-compatible functions are supported, such as cross-sheet references, named ranges, table formulas, and formulas.
The Spreadsheet control provides a variety of text and number formatting options along with conditional formatting to improve the appearance and effectiveness of a spreadsheet.
You can merge multiple cells into a single large cell. Cells in a column will be merged row by row, and cells in a row will be merged column by column. The value of a top-left cell will be added to the merged cells and all other cell values will be deleted.
The Spreadsheet control supports on-demand data loading when bound to data sources. It improves initial loading time by requesting only the visible data from the data source.
For more information, check out our Spreadsheet control viewer and editor features:
WPF Spreadsheet Control
UWP Spreadsheet Control
JavaScript Spreadsheet Control
ASP.NET Core Spreadsheet Control
ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet Control
ASP.NET Web Forms Spreadsheet Control
Convert an Excel workbook or worksheet to PDF format. Use various customization options like embedding fonts, ignoring empty pages or worksheets, and showing or hiding headers and footers.
Worksheets can be converted to BMP, JPEG, PNG, and other image formats, with content such as data, formatting, charts, tables, and shapes.
Convert spreadsheet data to CSV and TSV formats to generate lightweight reports.
Dynamically render an Excel workbook or worksheet as an HTML file.
Save Excel files in ODS format to use in applications like OpenOffice and Google Sheets.
SpreadsheetML is easy to work with and designed to be human readable and editable. Convert Excel files to SpreadsheetML using Syncfusion’s Excel Library.
Convert an Excel workbook or worksheet to JSON file in schema and non-schema formats.
Easily get started with the .NET Excel Library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our .NET Excel Library Example that shows you how to render and configure the .NET Excel.
//Create an instance of ExcelEngine
using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
//Instantiate the Excel application object
IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
//Set the default application version
application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Xlsx;
//Create a new Excel workbook
IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Create();
//Get the first worksheet in the workbook into IWorksheet
IWorksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
//Assign some text in a cell
worksheet.Range["A3"].Text = "Hello World";
//Save the document
workbook.SaveAs("Output.xlsx");
}
//Create an instance of ExcelEngine
Using excelEngine As ExcelEngine = New ExcelEngine()
//Instantiate the Excel application object
Dim application As IApplication = excelEngine.Excel
//Set the default application version
application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Xlsx
//Create a new Excel workbook
Dim workbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Create()
//Get the first worksheet in the workbook into IWorksheet
Dim worksheet As IWorksheet = workbook.Worksheets(0)
//Assign some text in a cell
worksheet.Range("A3").Text = "Hello World"
//Save the document
workbook.SaveAs("Output.xlsx")
End Using
The Excel processing is also available in Blazor, .NET Core, Xamarin, UWP, WinUI, and .NET MAUI frameworks. Check it out on other platforms at the links below:
The Syncfusion .NET Excel Framework is a high-performance library and provides the following features:
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue and five or fewer developers.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
The Syncfusion Excel framework supports platforms for web (Blazor, Flutter, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Forms), mobile (.NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP).
You can find our Excel Framework demo here.
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