To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Install the downloaded EasyXLS installer for v8.6 or earlier.
Step 2: License file setup
Step required for EasyXLS v9.0 or later.
If you are using a trial, generate a trial license file from EasyXLS trials page. The trial license is valid for 30-days.
If you own a license key, you may login to the account that purchased the license and generate the license file from: https://www.easyxls.com/my-orders
Setup the license file into your project using these guidelines.
Step 3: Create a VB.NET project
If don't have a project, create one as ASP.NET web application, windows forms app, console application, class library or service.
Step 4: Include EasyXLS library into project
EasyXLS.dll must be added as reference to your project. EasyXLS.dll can be found: - Inside the downloaded archive at Step 1 for EasyXLS v9.0 or later - Under installation path for EasyXLS v8.6 or earlier, in "Dot NET version" folder.
Step 5: Run VB.NET code that sets rich text format in Excel cells
Execute the following VB.NET code that exports rich text format (RTF) in an Excel cell.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------
' Tutorial 19
'
' This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in VB.NET having
' multiple sheets. The first sheet is filled with data and the
' first cell of the second row contains data in rich text format.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------Imports EasyXLS
Imports EasyXLS.Constants
Module Tutorial19
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Tutorial 19" & vbCrLf & "----------" & vbCrLf)
' Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files having two sheetsDim workbook As New ExcelDocument(2)
' Set the sheet names
workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).setSheetName("First tab")
workbook.easy_getSheetAt(1).setSheetName("Second tab")
' Get the table of data for the first worksheetDim xlsFirstTab As ExcelWorksheet = workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0)
Dim xlsFirstTable = xlsFirstTab.easy_getExcelTable()
' Create the string used to set the RTF in cellDim sFormattedValue As String
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & "This is <b>bold</b>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <i>italic</i>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <u>underline</u>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <underline double>double underline</underline double>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <font color=red>red</font>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <font color=rgb(255,0,0)>red</font> too."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <font face=""Arial Black"">Arial Black</font>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <font size=15pt>size 15</font>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <s>strikethrough</s>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <sup>superscript</sup>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "This is <sub>subscript</sub>."
sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "<b>This</b> <i>is</i> " & _
"<font color=red face=""Arial Black"" size=15pt>" & _
"<underline double>formatted</underline double></font> <s>text</s>."' Set the rich text value in cell
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setHTMLValue(sFormattedValue)
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setDataType(DataType.STRING)
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setWrap(True)
xlsFirstTable.easy_getRowAt(1).setHeight(250)
xlsFirstTable.easy_getColumnAt(0).setWidth(250)
' Export Excel file
Console.WriteLine("Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial19 - RTF for Excel cells.xlsx.")
workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial19 - RTF for Excel cells.xlsx")
' Confirm export of Excel fileDim sError As String = workbook.easy_getError()
If (sError.Equals("")) Then
Console.Write(vbCrLf & "File successfully created. Press Enter to Exit...")
Else
Console.Write(vbCrLf & "Error encountered: " & sError & vbCrLf & "Press Enter to Exit...")
End If' Dispose memory
workbook.Dispose()
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module
