Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition Features

Import/Export Features

• Import and Export Excel in a .NET Application - Seamlessly import and export Excel-compatible XLSX, XLTX, XLSM files with no Excel dependency, with all formulas, formatting, and other settings.
• PDF Export - Export Excel .xlsx spreadsheets to PDF at server side with various PDF options, including security settings and embedded form controls with HTML5 tags for autocomplete.
• Image Exporting - Export a worksheet, cell range, shape, or chart to an image file on the server side in your application with various Image save options.
• Templates - DsExcel .NET introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind Excel documents to data and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Data Binding - DsExcel .NET supports one-way data binding with a cell, a worksheet, and Table binding to .NET data sources to easily fill in your data automatically.
• Import Data - Use ImportData() function to quickly import just the data values from a specified range in an Excel file without loading the whole object model.
• Import/Export Excel features to/from SpreadJS - Seamless import and export of SpreadJS file format (.sjs) to Excel files using .NET and various Open/Save options available.

Printing and PDF Export Features

• Forms - Create AcroForm fields, including HTML5 autocomplete types, to submit data forms to a server, import XML data, and import form data submitted on the client to a PDF.
• PDF Export - Export Excel .xlsx spreadsheets to PDF at server side with various PDF options, including security settings and embedded form controls with HTML5 tags for autocomplete.
• Page Setup - Get and set Page Setup attributes (left margin, bottom margin, paper size, and so on) on Excel workbook and import/export in XLSX and/or print to PDF or directly to a printer in Windows.
• Templates - DsExcel .NET introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind Excel documents to data and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Workbook Views - Programmatically set three predefined Workbook views, Normal, Page Layout, and Page Break Preview, which take effect on loading in Excel.
• Print Excel file to printer (Windows) - Directly print Excel file to printer using interfaces IWorkbook.PrintOut and PrintOutOptions (supported in Windows environments only).

Calculation Features

• Formulas (450+ Excel Functions) - Use hundreds of built-in functions and operators to perform complex calculations, add external formulas, or build your own custom functions and create what you need.
• Dynamic Array Formula - Use Dynamic Array Formula functions and the '#' operator to pass and return multiple values from functions and spill results in a range of cells.
• Custom Function - Custom functions allow you to easily create calculation functions for use in cell formulas using custom logic to return a value in your .NET app.
• Formula Parser - Create, parse and modify formulas with GrapeCity.Document.Excel.Expression namespace to parse the formula expressions.
• Table Formulas - Use absolute or relative structured references in formulas to reference to table cells for formulas that are more intuitive and easier to understand.
• Pivot Table Formulas - Use the method GenerateGetPivotDataFunction from IRange interface to generate formulas using the GETPIVOTDATA function to get pivot table values.
• Linked Picture - A linked picture (also knows as Camera Shape) can be created using a reference to the actual data, table, or chart in your final dashboard.
• Formula Tracing - Trace the formula references in your worksheet to find the Dependent and Precedent cells and automate your formula auditing to ensure calculation accuracy.
• Ignore Errors in Excel - Ignore range errors in Excel and hide the annoying green triangle.
• Excel Calculation Mode - Programmatically modify the Excel's mode of calculation to Automatic, Partial, or Manual.

Formatting, Style, and Theme Features

• Workbooks and Worksheets - Create, import, export, use passwords, add sheets, cut and copy ranges, copy and move worksheets, activate, configure, delete, protect, and add iterative calculations.
• Cell Rich Text - Apply rich text formatting using the IRichText interface including multiple font styles, colors, sizes, subscript and superscript text in the cells of the worksheet.
• Templates - DsExcel introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind Excel documents to data and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Themes - DsExcel API lets you apply built-in or custom Office themes to change the appearance of a workbook by replacing the colors and styles in one quick and easy operation.
• Conditional Formatting - Create conditional formatting rules for individual cells or a range of cells based on cell values or a custom formula, including data bars, color scales, and icon sets.
• Data Validation - Validate data by restricting the format and values that can be entered in cells of a worksheet, or create a drop-down list for the cell.
• Range Operations - Get and set all style, formula, and other settings on cells, rows or columns in .NET Excel documents with the help of Range property of the IWorksheet interface.
• Formatting - DsExcel provides many style, border, and format properties to customize the appearance of a range in your .NET Excel spreadsheet.
• Tables - Manage Tables independently in Excel worksheets, format rows and columns, include totals row, and perform calculations using structured table column references.
• Graphics - Use linear and gradient brushes and pattern fills with Shapes and Pictures in Excel workbooks for reporting, data visualization, and more.
• Charts - DsExcel provides a comprehensive charting API to add all types of charts in Excel worksheets, including support for advanced template reporting and data binding.
• Shapes - Embed Shapes and Pictures in a worksheet. You can insert arrows, lines, charts, slicers, pictures, general shapes and connectors, and group shapes.
• Pictures - Add a picture to a worksheet using the AddPicture method of the worksheet's Shapes collection, or delete, cut, copy and duplicate pictures in the worksheet.
• Templates - DsExcel introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind to Images and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Linked Picture - A linked picture (also known as Camera Shape) can be created using a reference to the actual data, table, or chart in your final dashboard.
• Barcodes - DsExcel supports 11 types of barcodes that can be added using a simple formula. Convert the formula result to picture using ConvertBarcodeToPicture() method.

Data and Visualization Features

• Workbooks and Worksheets - Create, import, export, use passwords, add sheets, cut and copy ranges, copy and move worksheets, activate, configure, delete, protect, and add iterative calculations.
• Templates - DsExcel introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind Excel documents to data and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Forms - Create AcroForm fields, including HTML5 autocomplete types, to submit data forms to a server, import XML data, and import form data submitted on the client to a PDF.
• Range Operations - Get and set all style, formula, and other settings on cells, rows or columns in .NET Excel documents with the help of Range property of the IWorksheet interface.
• Formatting - DsExcel provides many style, border, and format properties to customize the appearance of a range in your .NET Excel spreadsheet.
• Dynamic Array Formula - Use Dynamic Array Formula functions and the '#' operator to pass and return multiple values from functions and spill results in a range of cells.
• Tables - Manage Tables independently in Excel worksheets, format rows and columns, include totals row, and perform calculations using structured table column references.
• Pivot Tables - Add Pivot Table to Excel workbook for data summarization and aggregation, to automatically count, total, or average the data stored in a spreadsheet.
• Conditional Formatting - Create conditional formatting rules for individual cells or a range of cells based on cell values or a custom formula, including data bars, color scales, and icon sets.
• Grouping - Summarize large amounts of information in groups of columns and/or rows that expand and collapse so that complex spreadsheets are easier to navigate.
• Cell Rich Text - Apply rich text formatting using the IRichText interface including multiple font styles, colors, sizes, subscript and superscript text in the cells of the worksheet.
• Data Validation - Validate data by restricting the format and values that can be entered in cells of a worksheet, or create a drop-down list for the cell.
• Find and Replace - Find and Replace text or formulas in a worksheet with various options including case, whole or partial match, match byte, replace format, search format, and more.
• Filtering - DsExcel supports all types of filters including Date, Text, Number, Color, Icon, and more in tables or on a range using a worksheet range filter.
• Data Binding - DsExcel supports one-way data binding with a cell, a worksheet, and Table binding to .NET data sources to easily fill in your data automatically.
• Sorting - DsExcel provides the Sort method to perform data sorting on a range of cells by value, color, or icon, and supports sorting by column or row in a worksheet.
• Slicer - Slicers are visual filters that you can use to filter a table or pivot table. Add built-in and custom slicer styles in Excel workbooks to create interactive reports.
• Comments - DsExcel enables users to write Comments for cells to add metadata information about the data it contains, which can show as a popup or sticky note.
• Hyperlinks - Link to a cell location in a worksheet, a web page, an external file, or an email address using a Hyperlink in a cell or shape to create a table of contents and more.
• Themes - DsExcel API lets you apply built-in or custom Office themes to change the appearance of a workbook by replacing the colors and styles in one quick and easy operation.
• Threaded Comments - Add, reply, and delete Threaded Comments, as well as move to next comment, move to previous comment and many more such operations.

Advanced Features

• Templates - DsExcel introduces Templates Support with comprehensive syntax and API to easily bind Excel documents to data and generate advanced and complex custom Excel reports.
• Forms - Create AcroForm fields, including HTML5 autocomplete types, to submit data forms to a server, import XML data, and import form data submitted on the client to a PDF.
• Document Solutions Data Viewer - Open and view data documents (XLSX, CSV, SpreadJS) in web applications.
• Excel Form Controls - Create Excel forms with standard Form controls and collect data from your users.
• Pivot Tables - Add Pivot Table to Excel workbook for data summarization and aggregation, to automatically count, total, or average the data stored in a spreadsheet.
• Custom Function - Custom functions allow you to easily create calculation functions for use in cell formulas using custom logic to return a value in your .NET app.
• Dynamic Array Formula - Use Dynamic Array Formula functions and the '#' operator to pass and return multiple values from functions and spill results in a range of cells.
• Formula Parser - Create, parse, and modify formulas with GrapeCity.Documents.Excel.
• Charts - DsExcel provides a comprehensive charting API to add all types of charts in Excel worksheets, including support for advanced template reporting and data binding.
• PDF Export - Export Excel .xlsx spreadsheets to PDF at server side with various PDF options, including security settings and embedded form controls with HTML5 tags for autocomplete.
• Linked Picture - A linked picture (also knows as Camera Shape) can be created using a reference to the actual data, table, or chart in your final dashboard.
• SpreadJS Viewer - Use DsExcel on the server side to import/export Excel template files with SpreadJS as a viewer or editor in the browser (client side).
• SpreadJS Feature Support - DsExcel supports SpreadJS features, adding more compatibility with the client-side SpreadJS product. View the complete supported features list here.
• SpreadJS JSON I/O - DsExcel .NET supports more powerful and deep-level JSON I/O. Users could use JSON to interact with SpreadJS in a more flexible way.
• Import/Export Excel Features To/From SpreadJS - Seamless import and export of SpreadJS file format (.sjs) to Excel files using .NET and various Open/Save options available.