| Prerequisites You will need ExcelWriter 8 installed in order to run the Hello World sample.
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Downloads
You can download the code for the Hello World tutorial as a Visual Studio solution.
ExcelWriter Reference in Visual Studio
Create a .NET project and add a reference to the ExcelWriter library.
- Open Visual Studio and create a .NET project.
- The ExcelWriter Hello World sample code uses a web application.
- Add a reference to SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll
- SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll is located under Program Files > SoftArtisans > OfficeWriter > dotnet > bin
You can download the Hello World sample code (see above) to see the finished product.
 | Please check out Adding OfficeWriter to your .NET Application for more on getting started with OfficeWriter |
Template vs. Application based Approaches
ExcelWriter offers two approaches to generating, processing and manipulating Excel documents: ExcelTemplate and ExcelApplication. This tutorial will walk you through assigning the contents of a cell using ExcelTemplate and ExcelApplication.
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Hello World: Template Based Approach With ExcelTemplate, we can insert our data into a specially formatted Excel file. |
Hello World: Programmatic Approach With ExcelApplication's full object-model, we can create an Excel file completely from scratch. |