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How to Install NPOI Library on c#?

Last Updated : 11 Jan, 2023
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NPOI is an open-source .NET library that allows you to read and write Microsoft Office file formats. NPOI is built on top of the Apache POI project, a Java library for working with Office files. NPOI provides a similar set of features as the Apache POI library but is explicitly designed for use with .NET and C#. 

To install NPOI in c#, follow these steps:

Step 1: Install the .NET Framework and Visual Studio, if you do not already have them. You can download and install the .NET Framework from the Microsoft website (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) and download and install Visual Studio from the Visual Studio website (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/).

.NET Framework looks like this.

.NET Framework

 

Visual Studio looks like this.

Visual studio

 

Step 2: Open Visual Studio and create a new project. In the New Project dialog, select the “Class Library” project template, give the project a name, and click “OK”.

create a new project.

 

Step 3: In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project and select “Manage NuGet Packages”.

 Solution Explorer

 

Step 4: In the NuGet Package Manager, click on the “Browse” tab and search for “NPOI”. Select the “NPOI” package and click “Install” to install it.

"NPOI" package and click "Install"

 

Step 5: Once the installation is complete, you can use NPOI in your C# code by adding the following using statement:

use NPOI in C#

 

Step 6: You can now use the classes and methods provided by NPOI to work with Excel files in your C# code. For example, you can use the WorkbookFactory class to create a new workbook, the Sheet class to create and manage sheets in the workbook, and the Row and Cell classes to create and manage rows and cells in a sheet.

Here is an example of how to use NPOI to create a new Excel workbook and write some data to it:

Example of NPOI

 

This code will create a new Excel workbook and write the string “Hello, World!” to the first cell of the first sheet in the workbook. The workbook will be saved to a file named “myworkbook.xlsx” in the current directory.
 


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