BigExcelCreator 0.2022.261.2322

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// Install BigExcelCreator as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=BigExcelCreator&version=0.2022.261.2322

// Install BigExcelCreator as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=BigExcelCreator&version=0.2022.261.2322                

Big Excel Creator

Create Excel files using OpenXML SAX with styling. This is specially useful when trying to output thousands of rows

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Table of Contents

Usage

  1. Instantiate class BigExcelWritter using either a file path or a stream (MemoryStream is recommended).
  2. Open a new Sheet using CreateAndOpenSheet
  3. For every row, use BeginRow and EndRow
  4. Between BeginRow and EndRow, use WriteTextCell to write a cell.

    Alternatively, you can use WriteTextRow to write an entire row at once, using the same format.

  5. Use CloseSheet to finish.
  6. If needed, repeat steps 2 → 5 to write to another sheet

Example

using BigExcelCreator;

....

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
using (BigExcelWritter excel = new(stream, DocumentFormat.OpenXml.SpreadsheetDocumentType.Workbook))
{
    excel.CreateAndOpenSheet("Sheet Name");
    excel.BeginRow();
    excel.WriteTextCell("Cell content");
    excel.EndRow();
    excel.CloseSheet();
}

Data Validation

Use AddListValidator to restrict possible values to be written to a cell by an user.

    excel.CreateAndOpenSheet("Sheet Name");
    
    ...    
    
    // Only allow values included in sheet named "vals" between cells A1 and A6
    // when writing to cells between B2 and B10 of the current sheet.
    string range = "B2:B10";
    string formula = "vals!$A$1:$A$6";
    excel.AddValidator(range, formula);
    
    excel.CloseSheet();

Styling and formatting

Column width

When calling CreateAndOpenSheet, pass IList<Column> as second parameter. Each element represents a single column. Only the CustomWidth and Width properties are needed and considered.

At this point, CustomWidth must be set to true

Width represents the column width in characters (Same unit as when resizing in Excel).

Example

List<Column> cols = new List<Column> {
    new Column{CustomWidth = true, Width=10},   // A
    new Column{CustomWidth = true, Width=15},   // B
    new Column{CustomWidth = true, Width=18},   // c
};

excel.CreateAndOpenSheet("Sheet Name", cols);

Hide Sheet

CreateAndOpenSheet accepts as third parameter a SheetStateValues variable.

  • SheetStateValues.Visible (default): Sheet is visible
  • SheetStateValues.Hidden: Sheet is hidden
  • SheetStateValues.VeryHidden: Sheet is hidden and cannot be unhidden from Excel's UI.

Styling

First, the elements that define a style (font, fill, border and, optionally, numbering format) must be created.

font1 = new Font(new Bold(),
            new FontSize { Val = 11 },
            new Color { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "000000" } },
            new FontName { Val = "Calibri" });

fill1 = new Fill(
            new PatternFill { PatternType = PatternValues.Gray125 });
fill2 = new Fill(
            new PatternFill (
                new ForegroundColor { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "FFFF00" } }
            )
            { PatternType = PatternValues.Solid });

border1 = new Border(
            new LeftBorder(
                new Color { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "FFD3D3D3" } }
            )
            { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin },
            new RightBorder(
                new Color { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "FFD3D3D3" } }
            )
            { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin },
            new TopBorder(
                new Color { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "FFD3D3D3" } }
            )
            { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin },
            new BottomBorder(
                new Color { Rgb = new HexBinaryValue { Value = "FFD3D3D3" } }
            )
            { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin },
            new DiagonalBorder());

numberingFormat1 = new NumberingFormat { NumberFormatId = 164, FormatCode = "0,.00;(0,.00)" };

After that, a new style list can be created and new styles inserted. Remember to name you styles.

StyleList list = new StyleList();
string name1 = "name1";
string name2 = "name2";

list.NewStyle(font1, fill1, border1, numberingFormat1, name1);
list.NewStyle(font1, fill2, border1, numberingFormat1, name2);

When instantiating BigExcelWritter, use the result of calling GetStylesheet as the stylesheet parameter. Then, when writing a cell, you can use the name given earlier to format it.

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
using (BigExcelWritter excel = new(stream,
                                    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.SpreadsheetDocumentType.Workbook
                                    stylesheet: list.GetStylesheet()))
{
    int index_style_name1 = list.GetIndexByName(name1);
    int index_style_name2 = list.GetIndexByName(name2);
    excel.CreateAndOpenSheet("Sheet Name");
    excel.BeginRow();
    excel.WriteTextCell("This has a gray patterned background", index_style_name1);
    excel.WriteTextCell("This has a yellow background", index_style_name2);
    excel.EndRow();
    excel.CloseSheet();
}

Comments

In order to add a note (formerly known as comment) to a cell, while a sheet is open, call the Comment method.

excel.CreateAndOpenSheet("Sheet Name");
excel.BeginRow();

excel.WriteTextCell("This has a gray patterned background", index_style_name1);
excel.WriteTextCell("This has a yellow background", index_style_name2);

excel.Comment("test A1 another sheet", "A1");

excel.EndRow();

excel.Comment("test E2 another sheet", "B1", "Author");

excel.CloseSheet();
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