Free Spire.XLS for .NET is a Community Edition of the Spire.XLS for .NET, which is a totally free Excel API for commercial and personal use. As a standalone .NET library, Free Spire.XLS for .NET enables developers to create, manage and manipulate Excel files on any .NET(C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core) applications. Free Spire.XLS for .NET is a standalone Excel .NET library and does not depend on Microsoft Office Excel. It supports both for the old Excel 97-2003 format (.xls) and for the new Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016 and Excel 2019 (.xlsx, .xlsm). Friendly Reminder: |
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Spire.XLS Pro Edition supports converting files from Excel to PDF, HTML, Excel to CSV, Excel to Text, Excel to Image and Excel to XML(the Excel can be either .XLS or .XLSX) and it is included in Spire.XLS Pack. |
Spire.XLS for .NET Standard Edition only can be used for .NET and doesn't support print and conversion function. |
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Free version is limited to 5 sheets per workbook and 200 rows per sheet. It doesn't support the print function. When converting Excel files to other formats, such as you can only get the first 3 pages of PDF/XPS, and you can only convert first 3 sheets to Images. |

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Only Free Spire.XLS, No Microsoft Office Automation
Free Spire.XLS for .NET is a 100% standalone Excel .NET library without requiring Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Office to be installed on the system. |
Free Spire.XLS for .NET has powerful conversion ability and it enables converting Excel files to most common and popular formats. |
Free Spire.XLS for .NET enables developers to generate Excel workbook from scratch, or load a workbook from either folder or file stream. Developers can also save it to file, file stream or web response. Free Spire.XLS for .NET offers a wide range of security features including Excel encryption/decryption, cells hide/unhide, and worksheets lock/unlock. |
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Free Spire.XLS for .NET enables developers to create, add, delete, rename, edit and move worksheet in either C#, VB.NET or ASP.NET. Developers can also copy, move, and consolidate across worksheets with full contents. This professional Excel .NET class library also embeds many flexible options for displaying worksheets, such as page breaks, zoom-setting, freeze panes, headers/footers, print paper size and print area etc. |
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