How to disable gridlines in Excel using open xml C#?

Question

I want to disable GridLines in excel and put custom borders to excel cells using open xml in C#

I have tried with below code but is throwing exception when i open th

Answer 1

I tried this way but it was failing but able to identify what is missing. By default when creating a spreadsheet from scratch, there is no default workbook view. So need to create new workbook view.

spreadSheet.WorkbookPart.Workbook = new Workbook(new BookViews(new WorkbookView()));

Then create sheet view.

worksheetPart.Worksheet = new Worksheet(new SheetViews(new SheetView(){WorkbookViewId=0,ShowGridLines=new BooleanValue(false)}), new SheetData());

NOTE: When create columns in the excel workbook, the elements should be created in a sequence. The sequence is

• Sheet Views
• Sheet View Formatting
• Columns
• Sheet Data

Enjoy Open XML SDK but Microsoft does not provide very powerfull documentation.

Answer 2

The WorkbookViewId property of the SheetView class is a required attribute/property. Try this:

SheetView sheetView = new SheetView();
sheetView.ShowGridLines = new BooleanValue(false);
sheetView.WorkbookViewId = 0;
sheetViews.Append(sheetView);
ws.Append(sheetViews);

That uses the 1st (default) workbook view. Don't worry, you don't have to explicitly create a WorkbookView child of the BookViews class, which is a child of Workbook. Unless you want to, of course. :)