Loading and saving workbook in WPF

8 Dec 20231 minute to read

Opening an existing workbook

You can open an existing workbook by using the overloads of Open methods of IWorkbooks interface.

C# [Windows-specific]

//Creates a new instance for ExcelEngine
ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine();

//Initialize IApplication
IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;

//Loads or open an existing workbook through Open method of IWorkbooks
IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Sample.xlsx");

Saving an Excel workbook

You can also save the created or manipulated workbook using overloads of SaveAs methods.

C# [Windows-specific]

//Creates a new instance for ExcelEngine
ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine();

//Initialize IApplication
IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;

//Loads or open an existing workbook through Open method of IWorkbooks
IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Sample.xlsx");

//To-Do some manipulation
//To-Do some manipulation

//Set the version of the workbook
workbook.Version = ExcelVersion.Xlsx;

//Save the workbook to disk in xlsx format
workbook.SaveAs("Output.xlsx");