This project is the .NET version of POI Java project at http://poi.apache.org/. POI is an open source project which can help you read/write xls, doc, ppt files. It has a wide application. For example, you can use it to generate a Excel report without Microsoft Office suite installed on your server and more efficient than call Microsoft Excel ActiveX at background; you can also use it to extract text from Office documents to help you implement full-text indexing feature (most of time this feature is used to create search engines).
Someone may find that there is already a project called POI.NET by Johannes Roith, which is located at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Poi.Net. However, this project is out of date. Some of the code are based on old version of POI, which may contain some bugs. Moreover, there is no source code available though you can use Reflector to view the source code.
Why choose NPOICreating Excel spreadsheets .XLS and .XLSX in C# by Leniel Macaferi Great thanks to Leniel Macaferi for giving us a good case of why choose NPOI.
DownloadsTo download
NPOI 1.2.1 for .NET 2.0, please see
http://npoi.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19351To download
NPOI 1.2.1 for .NET 1.1, please see
http://npoi.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=33203To download
POIFS Browser 1.2 final release, please see
http://npoi.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=23409How to join meIf you are interested in this project and want to join me, please reply this post:
http://www.codeplex.com/npoi/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=36157TutorialNPOI 1.2 Chinese TutorialNPOI 1.2 English TutorialHow to use Excel Chart via NPOILearn More about NPOITo learn more about the future of the project, you can see
NPOI Road Map.
To learn more about the release plan of the project, you can see
NPOI Release PlanTo learn more about the test plan of the project, you can see
NPOI Test CasesTo get more information about the members of our team, you can see
NPOI Team MembersSystem RequirementVS2005 or VS2008 with .NET 2.0 Runtime (SP1)
vs2003 with .NET 1.1
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