Downloads

You can download the code for the Hello World tutorial as a Visual Studio solution.

• ExcelWriter_HelloWorldC#.zip
• ExcelWriter_HelloWorldVB.zip

ExcelWriter Reference in Visual Studio

Create a .NET project and add a reference to the ExcelWriter library.

1. Open Visual Studio and create a .NET project.
   • The ExcelWriter Hello World sample code uses a web application.
2. 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.

Template vs. Application based Approaches

ExcelWriter offers two approaches to generating, processing and manipulating Excel documents: ExcelTemplate and ExcelApplication.

With ExcelTemplate, we can insert our data into a specially formatted Excel file.

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[Using ExcelTemplate|Hello World using ExcelTemplate]
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With ExcelApplication's full object-model, we can create an Excel file completely from scratch.

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[Using ExcelApplication|Hello World Using ExcelApplication]

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