Excel XLS

Developers often need to create Excel files for various tasks such as creating reports, sharing data with other teams, etc. One of the ways to create Excel programmatically it to have a loop and go through cell-by-cell and fill data to it. But there's always a smarter way to do things. Wouldn't it be nice if there's a way by which we can just provide any data source (be it either data table, JSON, List, [...]

This is the second part of a series of articles on formatting and manipulating the Excel file using ByteScout Spreadsheet SDK. Many organizations rely on Microsoft Excel for the day-to-day activities of their business like data analysis, sales projections, reporting, etc. So before we go ahead, if you haven’t studied the previous parts of this article, I would highly recommend to read it now. You can get part 1 of this article here. This article [...]

Microsoft Excel is used in almost all types of industries and professions. Bankers, accountants, consultants, analysts, etc. all use an excel on a consistent basis. As a developer, you will often be given a requirement to programmatically generate the interactive excel worksheet either for reporting purposes or for presentation purposes. ByteScout Spreadsheet SDK has provided, in no particular order, and out of box features to formatting and manipulating the excel file. In this article, we [...]

One of the oldest of the Microsoft Office applications - Excel is already packed with a rich set of features. As a developer many times we have to work with excel files like creating/modifying etc. Programming with Excel can be a crucial solution with data-rich projects/applications. ByteScout Spreadsheet SDK provides many features that let the developer create rich Microsoft Excel solutions with the use of its easy and extensive SDKs. In this article, we are [...]

Excel files or more commonly known as spreadsheets are used to store, manipulate, analyze and retrieve statistical data. Spreadsheets work as a down-featured version of database management systems. Common uses of spreadsheets include daily price charts and sales data, student result calculation, employee salary management and similar systems. In short, almost all the statistical data can be stored, manipulated and presented in the form of graphs, charts, and tables via spreadsheets. The best thing about spreadsheets [...]

XLS is a file extension used for spreadsheets created using Microsoft’s Excel application. XLS was the extension which was used for Microsoft Excel files created before MS Excel 2007 was released.  MS Excel 2007 introduced a new file extension known as XSLS. This new file format utilized XML file formatting. The data storage technique in XLS is based on traditional BIFF (Binary Interchange File Format). In BIFF, data is first converted into the binary format [...]