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How to set date formatting in cells with spreadsheet sdk in C# using ByteScout Barcode Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to set date formatting in cells with spreadsheet sdk in C#

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to set date formatting in cells with spreadsheet sdk in C#. ByteScout Barcode Suite can set date formatting in cells with spreadsheet sdk. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Barcode Suite is the bundle that privides 3 SDK products to generate barcodes (Barcode SDK), read barcodes (Barcode Reaer SDK) and read and write spreadsheets (Spreadsheet SDK).

The following code snippet for ByteScout Barcode Suite works best when you need to quickly set date formatting in cells with spreadsheet sdk in your C# application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. If you want to use these C# sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.Spreadsheet;
using System.IO;

namespace HelloWorld
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create new Spreadsheet
            Spreadsheet document = new Spreadsheet();

            // Get worksheet by name
            Worksheet worksheet = document.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("Sample");

            // Set captions
            worksheet.Cell(0, 0).Value = "#";
            worksheet.Cell(0, 1).Value = "Date";

            for (int i = 1; i < 8; i++)
            {
                // Set number
                worksheet.Cell(i, 0).Value = i;

                // Set current cell
                Cell currentCell = worksheet.Cell(i, 1);

                // Set date
                currentCell.ValueAsDateTime = DateTime.Now;

                // Set date format
                currentCell.NumberFormatString = "dd.mm.yyyy";
            }

            // delete output file if exists already
            if (File.Exists("Sample.xls")){
                File.Delete("Sample.xls");
            }

            // Save document
            document.SaveAs("Sample.xls");

            // Close document
            document.Close();

            // open generated XLS document in default program
            Process.Start("Sample.xls");
        }
    }
}