How to convert Multiple Xlsx file to Xls

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Dear All, Please need your support i need to convert xlsx file to xls. can anyone share with me best solution.

Jayraj Chhaya · Answer

To convert an XLSX file to XLS format in C#, you can make use of the Microsoft Office Interop libraries. These libraries provide functionality to work with Excel files programmatically. Here's an example of how you can convert a single XLSX file to XLS format: using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; public void ConvertXlsxToXls(string xlsxFilePath, string xlsFilePath) { Excel.Application excelApp = new Excel.Application(); Excel.Workbook workbook = excelApp.Workbooks.Open(xlsxFilePath); workbook.SaveAs(xlsFilePath, Excel.XlFileFormat.xlExcel8); workbook.Close(); excelApp.Quit(); } In the above code, we create an instance of the Excel.Application class and open the XLSX file using the Workbooks.Open method. We then save the workbook in XLS format using the SaveAs method with the xlExcel8 file format. Finally, we close the workbook and quit the Excel application. To convert multiple XLSX files to XLS format, you can iterate over the files and call the ConvertXlsxToXls method for each file. Here's an example: public void ConvertMultipleXlsxToXls(string[] xlsxFilePaths, string outputFolderPath) { foreach (string xlsxFilePath in xlsxFilePaths) { string xlsFilePath = Path.Combine(outputFolderPath, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(xlsxFilePath) + ".xls"); ConvertXlsxToXls(xlsxFilePath, xlsFilePath); } } In the above code, we iterate over the array of XLSX file paths and generate the corresponding XLS file path using the Path.Combine and Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension methods. We then call the ConvertXlsxToXls method to convert each XLSX file to XLS format. Remember to add a reference to the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel assembly in your project.

Uttam Chaturvedi · Answer

I would also recommend NPOI as a quite useful package Microsoft Office Interop does'nt work on azure appservices

Tahir Ansari · Answer

First, you'll need to install the required NuGet packages. In your Visual Studio project, open the Package Manager Console and run the following commands: Install-Package EPPlus Install-Package NPOI Once the packages are installed, you can use the following code to convert a .xlsx file to .xls: using System; using System.IO; using OfficeOpenXml; using NPOI.HSSF.UserModel; using NPOI.SS.UserModel; class Program { static void Main() { string inputFilePath = "path/to/input/file.xlsx"; string outputFilePath = "path/to/output/file.xls"; ConvertXlsxToXls(inputFilePath, outputFilePath); Console.WriteLine("Conversion complete."); } static void ConvertXlsxToXls(string inputFilePath, string outputFilePath) { using (var excelPackage = new ExcelPackage(new FileInfo(inputFilePath))) { var workbook = excelPackage.Workbook; var xlsWorkbook = new HSSFWorkbook(); foreach (var sheet in workbook.Worksheets) { var xlsSheet = xlsWorkbook.CreateSheet(sheet.Name); for (int row = 1; row This code uses the EPPlus library to read the .xlsx file and the NPOI library to create a new .xls file with the same data.

Leon D · Answer

Hello, You can use Spire.XLS package to easily convert xlsx to xls and vice versa. Install-Package Spire.Xls Here is an example that converts an xlsx file to xls format: using Spire.Xls; namespace ConvertXlsxToXls { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { //Create a Workbook instance Workbook workbook = new Workbook(); //Load an XLSX file workbook.LoadFromFile("Input.xlsx"); //Convert the file to XLS format workbook.SaveToFile("ToXls.xls", ExcelVersion.Version97to2003); } } } More details can be found in this documentation: https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.XLS/Spire.XLS-Program-Guide/Excel-Conversion/NET-Excel-Conversion-between-Excel-97-2003.xls-and-Excel-2007.xlsx.html

Jignesh Kumar · Answer

Hello Feroz, Please use this code, use EPPlus Nuget package using System; using System.IO; using OfficeOpenXml; using OfficeOpenXml.ExcelPackage; class Program { static void Main() { // XLSX files folder path string inputDirectory = @"C:\Path\To\Your\XLSX\Files"; // output path for for XLS files string outputDirectory = @"C:\Path\To\Your\Output\Directory"; // Ensure the output directory exists Directory.CreateDirectory(outputDirectory); // Read all XLSX files in the input directory string[] xlsxFiles = Directory.GetFiles(inputDirectory, "*.xlsx"); foreach (var xlsxFile in xlsxFiles) { FileInfo xlsxFileInfo = new FileInfo(xlsxFile); // Create the corresponding output XLS file path string xlsFilePath = Path.Combine(outputDirectory, Path.ChangeExtension(xlsxFileInfo.Name, "xls")); // Convert XLSX to XLS file ConvertXlsxToXls(xlsxFileInfo.FullName, xlsFilePath); } Console.WriteLine("Conversion complete."); } static void ConvertXlsxToXls(string xlsxFilePath, string xlsFilePath) { // Load the XLSX file using EPPlus using (var package = new ExcelPackage(new FileInfo(xlsxFilePath))) { // Save the workbook as XLS format using (var xlsFile = new FileStream(xlsFilePath, FileMode.Create)) { package.SaveAs(xlsFile); } } } }

How to convert Multiple Xlsx file to Xls

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