export Excel to DataTable using NPOI

Question

I want to read Excel Tables 2010 xlsx using NPOI and then export data to DataTables but don\'t know how to use it. Can anyone show me step by step how to export Excel to Datatab

Answer 1

You can use nuget package for NOPI

ReadExcel

Basic usage: ExcelImportHelper.ReadExcel(bytes);

Answer 2

On Codeplex website here in Download section there is example package - a pack of C# examples. Try it, if you haven't yet.

This is simplest example of it -

using NPOI.HSSF.UserModel;
using NPOI.SS.UserModel;

//.....

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    HSSFWorkbook hssfwb;
    using (FileStream file = new FileStream(@"c:\test.xls", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
    {
        hssfwb= new HSSFWorkbook(file);
    }

    ISheet sheet = hssfwb.GetSheet("Arkusz1");
    for (int row = 0; row <= sheet.LastRowNum; row++)
    {
        if (sheet.GetRow(row) != null) //null is when the row only contains empty cells 
        {
            MessageBox.Show(string.Format("Row {0} = {1}", row, sheet.GetRow(row).GetCell(0).StringCellValue));
        }
    }
}  

Answer 3

You can try this easy way through NPOI:

private DataTable GetDataTableFromExcel(String Path)
    {
        XSSFWorkbook wb;
        XSSFSheet sh;
        String Sheet_name;

        using (var fs = new FileStream(Path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
        {
            wb = new XSSFWorkbook(fs);

               Sheet_name= wb.GetSheetAt(0).SheetName;  //get first sheet name
        }
        DataTable DT = new DataTable();
        DT.Rows.Clear();
        DT.Columns.Clear();

        // get sheet
        sh = (XSSFSheet)wb.GetSheet(Sheet_name);

        int i = 0;
        while (sh.GetRow(i) != null)
        {
            // add neccessary columns
            if (DT.Columns.Count < sh.GetRow(i).Cells.Count)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < sh.GetRow(i).Cells.Count; j++)
                {
                    DT.Columns.Add("", typeof(string));
                }
            }

            // add row
            DT.Rows.Add();

            // write row value
            for (int j = 0; j < sh.GetRow(i).Cells.Count; j++)
            {
                var cell = sh.GetRow(i).GetCell(j);

                if (cell != null)
                {
                    // TODO: you can add more cell types capatibility, e. g. formula
                    switch (cell.CellType)
                    {
                        case NPOI.SS.UserModel.CellType.Numeric:
                            DT.Rows[i][j] = sh.GetRow(i).GetCell(j).NumericCellValue;
                            //dataGridView1[j, i].Value = sh.GetRow(i).GetCell(j).NumericCellValue;

                            break;
                        case NPOI.SS.UserModel.CellType.String:
                            DT.Rows[i][j] = sh.GetRow(i).GetCell(j).StringCellValue;

                            break;
                    }
                }
            }

            i++;
        }

        return DT;
    }

Answer 4

Here's about the minimum code you can use to convert an Excel file to a DataSet using NPOI:

IWorkbook workbook;
using (var stream = new FileStream(excelFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(stream); // XSSFWorkbook for XLSX
}

var sheet = workbook.GetSheetAt(0); // zero-based index of your target sheet
var dataTable = new DataTable(sheet.SheetName);

// write the header row
var headerRow = sheet.GetRow(0);
foreach (var headerCell in headerRow)
{
    dataTable.Columns.Add(headerCell.ToString());
}

// write the rest
for(int i = 1; i< sheet.PhysicalNumberOfRows; i++)
{
    var sheetRow = sheet.GetRow(i);
    var dtRow = dataTable.NewRow();
    dtRow.ItemArray = dataTable.Columns
        .Cast<DataColumn>()
        .Select(c => sheetRow.GetCell(c.Ordinal, MissingCellPolicy.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK).ToString())
        .ToArray();
    dataTable.Rows.Add(dtRow);
}

Answer 5

You can accomplish you task by doing this.

using NPOI.SS.UserModel;
using NPOI.XSSF.UserModel;
using NPOI.Util.Collections;
using NPOI;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using NPOI.OpenXmlFormats.Spreadsheet;
using NPOI.HSSF.UserModel;
using NPOI.SS.Util;

public DataTable xlsxToDT(Stream str)
{
XSSFWorkbook hssfworkbook = new XSSFWorkbook(str);
ISheet sheet = hssfworkbook.GetSheetAt(0);
str.Close();

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
IRow headerRow = sheet.GetRow(0);
IEnumerator rows = sheet.GetRowEnumerator();

int colCount = headerRow.LastCellNum;
int rowCount = sheet.LastRowNum;

for (int c = 0; c < colCount; c++)
    dt.Columns.Add(headerRow.GetCell(c).ToString());

while (rows.MoveNext())
{
    IRow row = (XSSFRow)rows.Current;
    DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

    for (int i = 0; i < colCount; i++)
    {
        ICell cell = row.GetCell(i);

        if (cell != null)
            dr[i] = cell.ToString();
    }
    dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
return dt;

}