creating simple excel sheet in c# with strings as input

Question

I am working on creating EXcel sheet in C#.

No Of columns:4
Name of columns: SNO, Name, ID, Address

There is no constarint on number of rows.

         SNO   Name      ID   Address
          1     A         1122  XXXX
          2     B         2211  YYYY


         --- ---        ----    ---

I have strings as input

       string sno, string name, string Id, string address

I am actually new to C# background.

Can any one share their view on it like dlls needed etc.

Thank you

Solution

If you include a reference to Excel Interop you can do whatever you please having Office installed on your system.

A little example:

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

Excel.Application excel = new Excel.Application();
excel.Visible = true;
Excel.Workbook wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(excel_filename);
Excel.Worksheet sh = wb.Sheets.Add();
sh.Name = "TestSheet";
sh.Cells[1, "A"].Value2 = "SNO";
sh.Cells[2, "B"].Value2 = "A";
sh.Cells[2, "C"].Value2 = "1122";
wb.Close(true);
excel.Quit();            

Comments

[Raulp]

I wanted to create an Exl file on a system on which Excel is not installed(MS Office not installed) , neverthless i want to create the xl file which i can transfer to another PC with MS office installed.Is it Still Possible?

[Marco]

@Raulp: you should use third party components because Excel Interop cannot work without Excel installed. You could also think about creating a CSV file instead...

[Andrew Rondeau]

@Raulp: This thread stackoverflow.com/q/151005/1711103 discusses how to create excel spreadsheets without having excel installed.

[Karen Payne]

SpreadSheetLight (.xlsx only) can be used to create without Excel installed along with most common operations spreadsheetlight.com