I have a C#/ASP.NET program that exports and excel file using EPPlus. I would like to incorporate a box-and-whisker plot into my excel file. However, it doesn't seem to be a default chart type in EPPlus when I look at the options under eChartType, does anyone know how to get one of these charts into the exported excel file.
Thank you!
So after more research it looks like the answer is no. Box Plots weren't added into Excel until the 2016 update and EPPlus is based on earlier versions. However, this pdf from the NI describes how to approximate a box and whisker plot using a stacked bar chart and I suspect it would be possible to recreate this process using EPPlus.
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I am trying to export my MS chart from my Windows from exported out to Excel. Are there any ways to go about doing it or any website that I should look into for help? I have searched with Google but it only shows ASP .NET which is not applicable to me.
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Instead of chart, Try to export the values or data of chart in Excel (table(s)) and create the chart in the excel so it can be auto populated in there.
I'm developing a web site using c# and MVC4. In one of the sections I have a couple of pie charts that are created using highcharts lib and are based on a table of totals next to the charts.
I need to export to excel both the table with the totals and the charts, and I need to do it in a way in which, once exported, if the table changes in excel the graph will also be updated inside the spreadsheet.
My company is using Infragistics to export to excel, so exporting the table is not a problem, but I'm not sure how to export the pie charts.
I saw this example where a pivot table is created and feed to the table, but I noticed that it is using native excel libraries instead of Infragistics, I've been trying to migrate this but can't seem to find the equivalent to Excel.Application inside Infragistics lib.
Another solution that occur to me is that maybe I can enter a formula inside a cell and have it create the pie chart but I don't think this is possible since, if I'm not wrong, the pie chart is not even included in a cell, but it is a graphic that floats inside the spreadsheet.
So if anyone has had any experience drawing a pie chart from c# to excel using Infragistics and can point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
I am a developer at Infragistics and work on the Excel library. Currently, charts will be round-tripped when a file is loaded and saved, but they cannot be manipulated or created at run-time in our object model. You can submit a feature request for this ability here: http://ideas.infragistics.com/
Using Infragistics, I don't know if you can create an Excel pie chart, but if you want to create it in a web or windows application, use this:
Infragistics® Chart
I am printing a chart using excel inter OP in c#. The values are filled in the excel sheet and the graph is plot based on that. Every thing is working fine. when I am printing the graph, there is a problem in that The axis values are repeated. What will be a solution?
I found the solution. It can easily done in excel by "format axis" option.
I've been using Microsoft COM model to prepare reports but it is slow and fails if server does not have excel installed. So I am moving to using OpenXML for creating reports from a server process that does a ton of other things as well.
I've a template that contains named ranges for data that I need to change or extend, named charts, named chart series, named worksheets, etc. All my formatting is contained in excel file and all I do in my server side process is populate the file with data.
These are the steps that I need to replicate using Excel OpenXML:
Open an existing sheet and create a new sheet based on it.
Get the worksheet by worksheet name
Get the Named Ranges in that worksheet.
Populate the Named Ranges from data and extend the ranges if required based on data set.
Get Chart by Chart Name
Get Chart Series by Series Title
Set Chart series to the new range
Export Chart to jpeg to be used in html.
Save new File.
Is it possible to do these steps in OpenXML cleanly? Any examples will help me a lot. Or a light weight library that does this. Some of these 3rd party libraries are too big and are more useful in creating new sheets from scratch.
Any help appreciated.
AFAIK, with OpenXml you can do anything.
I recommend a ClosedXml lib, it wraps OpenXML SDK and makes it easier to do your job. Link contains samples and stuff. Hope that helps.
Is it possible to import excel data to display using C# in any view(data grid etc ..) while retaining formatting like Bold, italic and strikethrough, throughout the document? I am making a Windows form application. My data is in an excel sheet, I want to display it in grid view or any other while retaining the formatting.
Well, there are some ways that I can think of but neither of them are very pretty at all and they would not be very effecient.
1) Parse the excel file cell by cell using Excel Interop. (Very nasty)
2) If you can convert the excel file to Excel XML you could then write say a XSLT to parse the file to pull styling data much more quickly.
Of course getting the styling data out is one thing. Applying it can be a whole other experience. Once you get the styling you have to make sure you apply the values to all the correct columns. Again very nasty and alot of parsing.
However since you did not say whether this was a web or desktop app you could always just embedd an excel control (on the web side) to display the data which may solve your problem. On a desktop app you are probably in for a world of pain trying to do what I describe above.
Maybe somebody will have a better answer but that's what I got.
SpreadsheetGear for .NET can load Excel workbooks and provides access to formatted text values as well as cell formatting such as fonts and colors.
SpreadsheetGear also comes with a Windows Forms spreadsheet control which will allow users to display, edit, format, calculate, print, etc... workbooks with formatting, charts, etc... intact.
If you are building an ASP.NET application, you can use SpreadsheetGear to open a workbook and generate an image of cells and / or charts as shown on our "Excel Chart and Range Imaging Samples" page here
You can download the free trial here if you want to try it out.
Disclaimer: I own SpreadsheetGear LLC