You will need ExcelWriter 8 installed in order to run the Hello World sample.

  • If you haven't purchased ExcelWriter, you can download an evaluation version here.
  • If you need to install ExcelWriter, please visit the install page for instructions.

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 (this tutorial uses a web application).
  2. Add a reference to SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll

You can download the Hello World sample code (C# or VB) to see the finished product.

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.

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

With ExcelApplication's full object-model, we can create an excel file completely from scratch.

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