Aspose.Cells for .NET is a spreadsheet programming component that allows software developers to manipulate and convert spreadsheet files from within their own applications. A combination of APIs and GUI controls, Aspose.Cells for .NET speeds up Microsoft Excel programming and conversion. 

The APIs give developers powerful tools for performing simple file conversions or more complex tasks. Developers have control over page layout, formatting, charts and formulas. They can read and write spreadsheet files and save out to a variety of image, portable and text file formats.

Aspose.Cells for .NET is fast and reliable. It saves time and effort compared to developing your own spreadsheet manipulation solution or using Microsoft Automation.

At a Glance

An overview of the main file formats, data processing, import, export and rendering capabilities of Aspose.Cells for .NET.

Platform Independence

Aspose.Cells for .NET supports the .NET framework, PHP, Python and Mono.

Supported File Formats

Aspose.Cells for .NET supports the popular spreadsheet (XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, CSV, SpreadsheetML) and image file formats your business use every day, including SVG.

 Common Uses

• Excel reporting - build dynamic Excel reports on the fly
• Create Excel dashboards, incorporating charts and pivot tables
• High-fidelity Excel rendering and printing
• Import data from Excel spreadsheets
• Export data to Excel spreadsheets
• Spreadsheet generation
• Spreadsheet visualization through an Excel enabled grid for both desktop and web
• Spreadsheet manipulation/editing
• Spreadsheet conversion

We have clients of many different types, including:

• Banks
• Data processing houses
• Educational institutions
• Government organizations
• Insurance firms
• Legal institutions
• Postal/cargo services
• Search engines
• See a list of some of the companies that use Aspose.Cells.

No Microsoft Excel Automation

Aspose.Cells for .NET is an incredibly versatile component that allows developers to create, manage and manipulate Excel spreadsheets without requiring Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Office to be installed on the system. In short, Aspose.Cells for .NET is a better alternative to Office Automation in terms of security, stability, scalibility, speed, price and features.

Advanced Features

Unlike similar products from other vendors, Aspose.Cells for .NET not only supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features, it also supports a number of advanced features. These advanced features make it much easier for developers to manipulate spreadsheet contents, cell formatting and file protection. Aspose.Cells for .NET includes the following features:

• Ability to save and open Excel files to and from streams
• Send output to a client browser
• Import and export data from a DataTable, DataView or Array
• Import images and charts
• Create images and charts through the product API
• Import formulae from a designer spreadsheet
• Configure page setup through the product API

Aspose.Cells for .NET also supports addins, VBA and macros. As well as this, there are also a number of unique features that developers can only find in Aspose.Cells for .NET, these include:

• Support of the CSV format
• Support for Office Open XML (OOXML).
• Add a copy of an existing worksheet (with full contents, images and charts etc.) to a new file
• Set the gradient background for charts through the product API
• Create comments
• Auto-filters and page breaks through the product API
• Set complex formulae
• Support conditional formatting
• Support protection options introduced in Microsoft Excel XP
• Manipulate named ranges
• MS Excel 2010 sparklines
• Locating APIs
• Support custom chart API
• Formula calculation engine
• Exporting worksheets to SVG files
• Many many more!

Platform Independence

Aspose.Cells for .NET together with Aspose.Cells for Java cover the main development environments and deployment platforms in common use today. You can confidently use Aspose.Cells for .NET to build any type of a 32-bit or 64-bit .NET application including ASP.NET, web services and WinForms. Aspose.Cells for .NET is easy to deploy because it is just a class library without any dependencies (except on the .NET Framework itself).

It is also possible to use Aspose.Cells for .NET in pre- .NET technologies (like ASP) as a COM Wrapper. You can also use the Aspose.Cells for .NET component with C/C++, Mono, PHP, Python etc.

Flexible Display Options

Aspose.Cells for .NET gives you complete control over page setup and allows you to manipulate a wide range of display options such as preview page breaks and the zoom level for the worksheet, control data visibility using freeze panes, set page orientation options, scaling, paper size, headers/footers, and print area etc.

Security Features

Aspose.Cells for .NET offers a wide range of security features including support for Excel 2007 XLSX file encryption/decryption, protect contents, objects and scenarios of a worksheet and the ability to hide and unhide a worksheet.

Manipulate Rows and Columns

Aspose.Cells for .NET allows you to manipulate rows and columns in many different ways. You can easily adjust row height and column width as required, auto size the width/height of cells according to contents, insert and delete, hide and unhide as well as group and ungroup rows and columns.

Data Management

Aspose.Cells for .NET provides extensive support for data management. You can easily manipulate any cell in a worksheet at runtime, import data into worksheets from different data sources and export data to a DataTable.

Comprehensive Formatting Support

Aspose.Cells for .NET gives you absolute control over how your data is presented by offering advanced formatting features. You can apply individual formatting to a worksheet, row, column, and cell. You can also add rich text to a single cell and apply different borders, background patterns and fonts. Conditional formatting can also be applied to cells.

Creating Charts

Aspose.Cells for .NET comes with complete support for charting and supports all standard chart types. You can easily add customized charts using the product API and dynamically set data for charts. Aspose.Cells for .NET also allows you to convert charts to images.

Graphics Capabilities

Aspose.Cells for .NET provides extensive graphical capabilities, allowing you to easily convert worksheets to images as well as adding images to worksheets at runtime.

Support for Many Different File Formats

Using Aspose.Cells for .NET, developers can easily open and save a multitude of file formats. These include

• Excel 97/2000/XP/2007/2010 (XLSX)
• SpreadSheetML
• Tab Delimited
• CSV
• Office Open XML (OOXML) SpreadsheetML file formats

Using Aspose.Cells for .NET you can also open encrypted Excel files. It is even possible to convert Excel documents into PDF format directly using the component. Aspose.Cells for .NET also supports opening and saving of ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) format files. 

 Support for Office Open XML (OOXML)

Office Open XML (OOXML) is a container format for several specialized XML-based markup languages. OOXML SpreadsheetML documents mostly come as XLSX files, which are ZIP packages. In addition to XLSX, Aspose.Cells for .NET provides extensive support for loading, saving and converting SpreadsheetML documents.

Aspose.Cells Grid Suite

Aspose.Cells for .NET also provides a complete Grid solution. It has two GUI-based .NET controls:

• Aspose.Cells.GridDesktop supports desktop applications.
• Aspose.Cells.GridWeb supports web applications.