New MergedCellCollection class can now be used to merge and center the cells in a Worksheet.
Features
- The Microsoft .NET 5/6/Standard version no longer depends on the System.Drawing.Common package because, starting with .NET 6, this package only support the Microsoft Windows operating system.
- Text direction can now be set from right-to-left for languages that require it.
- Border, Fill, Font and Worksheet can now use either 'ThemeColor' or the more standard 'Color' to customize the colors of different objects.
- A new ColorHelper class is now available to convert a color between 'ThemeColor', 'Color' or an HTML string.
- New MergedCellCollection class can be used to merge and center the cells in a Worksheet.
- Styles have been refactored in order to use less memory.
- Style, Cells, Columns, Rows, ColumnRanges, RowRanges or CellRanges can now have Borders, which have a line style and a color and can be outside, inside, in diagonal or on the four sides of an element.
- CellRange, ColumnRange and RowRange:
- The Style property can now be used to modify a style on a group of Cells, Columns or Rows.
- The new Elements property now returns all the Cells, Columns or Rows from a range.
- Column:
- Improved speed when inserting or deleting columns.
- ColumnRange:
- Setting new Width property will modify the width of all columns in a range. Getting new Width property will retrieve common width of columns in the range.
- Row and RowRange:
- The AutoFit() method can now be called to adjust the height of the row (or rows) automatically.
- RowRange:
- Setting new Height property will modify the height of all rows in the range. Getting new Height property will retrieve common height of rows in the range.
- It is now possible to retrieve RowRanges using the new indexer in RowCollection, which accepts a startRowId and a EndRowId.
- HyperlinkCollection:
- Optimizations have been made in order to improve loading and saving time for Workbooks containing many hyperlinks.
- Picture:
- Saving is now optimized so that it doesn’t re-write pictures when they remain unchanged.
- The Format property is now of type 'PictureFormat' instead of 'ImageFormat'.
- Picture now has customizable properties.
- Styles:
- Improvements have been made in order to reduce delays when several styles are being modified or when a document is saved after several styles have been modified.
- A new method, called RevertToDefault(), now sets the style of the cell, row or column back to its default value.
- A new property, called Alignment.IsTextWrapped, can now be used to wrap text in a cell.
- The new Fill property can now be used to customize the fill behavior of a cell, row, column or range.
- Tables:
- Loading and saving has been optimized to improve performance when the Workbook contains many tables.
- TableCollection:
- The int indexer now always returns the valid Table based on the Id received.
- Workbook:
- Writing styles now overrides the cellStyleXfs's number format Ids and font Ids so that a valid Workbook can be saved.
- A new property in Workbook, called Theme, is now available to customize the colors of a Workbook's Theme.
- WorkbookView:
- The insertion of WorkbookViews is now done as follows: Workbook.WorkbookViews.Add( new WorkbookView() );.
- Worksheet:
- A Worksheet can now be inserted in any position in the Workbook.
- New methods are now available to insert or delete columns.
- The new InsertRows and DeleteRows methods can now be used to insert or delete multiple rows.
- Inserting and deleting rows is now faster due to performance improvements.
- A new ImportData method can now be used to import data of: Array, 2D-Array, ArrayList, ICollection, IDictionary, DataTable, DataView or CSV path/stream type. This new method also includes a parameter that gives more flexibility when importing data of specific types.
- WorksheetCollection:
- Optimizations have been made in order to improve loading and saving time for Workbooks containing many Worksheets.