# EPPlus
Create advanced Excel spreadsheets using .NET, without the need of interop.

EPPlus is a .NET library that reads and writes Excel files using the Office Open XML format (xlsx). 
EPPlus has no dependencies other than .NET.
 
## EPPlus supports:
* Cell Ranges 
* Cell styling (Border, Color, Fill, Font, Number, Alignments) 
* Data validation 
* Conditional formatting 
* Charts 
* Pictures 
* Shapes 
* Comments 
* Tables 
* Pivot tables 
* Protection 
* Encryption 
* VBA 
* Formula calculation 
* Many more... 

## Overview
This project started with the source from ExcelPackage. It was a great project to start from.
It had the basic functionality needed to read and write a spreadsheet.
Advantages over other:
EPPlus uses dictionaries to access cell data, making performance a lot better.
Complete integration with .NET 

## Support
All support is currently referred to [Stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/epplus). 
A tutorial is available in the wiki and the sample project can be downloaded with each version. 
The old site at [Codeplex](http://epplus.codeplex.com) also contains material that can be helpful. 
Bugs and new feature requests can be added to the issues tracker. 

## License
The project is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).