Miscellaneous features

EPPlus can do a whole lot more for you. This post covers some interesting stuff that didn’t really fit anywhere else.

IEnumerable objects

Exporting data to an Excel doesn’t get easier than this

using (var package = new ExcelPackage())
{
	var sheet = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("IEnumerable");
	var data = new[]
	{
		new {Name = "A", Value = 1},
		new {Name = "B", Value = 2},
		new {Name = "C", Value = 3},
	};
	sheet.Cells["A1"].LoadFromCollection(data);
	sheet.Cells["A1"].SetHeaders("Name", "Value");
	package.SaveAs(new FileInfo(@""));
}

Comparing NSubstitute syntax with Moq, probably the most used mocking framework out there at the moment.

moq/moq4

nsubstitute/nsubstitute

In case your users want to continue working with the Excels after generation.

Not a problem for EPPlus. Instead of calculating values and writing them to an excel, leverage the power of Excel formulas.

Quick tutorial about creating xlsx Excels with C# and the EPPlus nuget package.

EPPlus Excel addresses are not zero based: The first column is column 1!

Also, before writing any loops, you might want to check out the LoadFromXXX methods. They are explained in depth in part 3 Import.

A listing of handy but less known shortcuts in Windows Explorer and some Autohotkey examples on how to add extra functionality.

Open Windows Explorer, the most direct way:

My PowerShell, Posh-Git and .gitconfig color configuration because of some red-green troubles with the default configurations.

A cheat sheet with everything there is to know about formatting the primitive types, DateTimes and TimeSpans in .NET.