How to Copy Excel Worksheet to Another Workbook in WinForms?

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Syncfusion Excel (XlsIO) library is a .NET Excel library used to create, read, and edit Excel documents. It also converts Excel documents to PDF files. Using this library, you can copy an Excel worksheet to another workbook or within the same workbook.

Steps to copy Excel worksheet to another workbook, programmatically:

Step 1: Create a new C# console application project.

WinForms XIsIO worksheet

Create a new C# console application

Step 2: Install the Syncfusion.XlsIO.WinForms NuGet package as reference to your .NET Framework application from NuGet.org.

Install WinForms Excel

Install NuGet package

Step 3: Include the following namespace in the Program.cs file.

using Syncfusion.XlsIO;

VB.NET

Imports Syncfusion.XlsIO

Step 4: Use the following code snippet to copy an Excel worksheet from the source workbook to the destination workbook.

using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
    // Instantiate the application object
    IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
 
    // Add source and destination workbooks
    IWorkbook sourceWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Source.xlsx");
    IWorkbook destinationWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Destination.xlsx");
    
    // Copy Excel worksheet from source workbook to the destination workbook
    destinationWorkbook.Worksheets.AddCopy(sourceWorkbook.Worksheets[0]);
 
    // Save the file
    destinationWorkbook.Save();
 
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Destination.xlsx");
}

VB.NET

Using excelEngine As ExcelEngine = New ExcelEngine()
    'Instantiate the application object
    Dim application As IApplication = excelEngine.Excel
 
    'Add source and destination workbooks
    Dim sourceWorkbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Source.xlsx")
    Dim destinationWorkbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Destination.xlsx")
    
    'Copy Excel worksheet from source workbook to the destination workbook
    destinationWorkbook.Worksheets.AddCopy(sourceWorkbook.Worksheets(0))
 
    'Save the file
    destinationWorkbook.Save()
 
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Destination.xlsx")
End Using

A complete Windows Forms working example of how to copy Excel worksheet to another workbook in C# and VB can be downloaded from Copy Excel worksheet to another workbook.zip.

The AddCopy() method adds a copy of the specified worksheet or worksheets to the worksheet collection. ExcelWorksheetCopyFlags enumeration can be used to specify options when copying worksheets. The AddCopy() method has six overloads whose API references are as follows:

Refer here to explore the rich set of Syncfusion Excel (XlsIO) library features.

How to Copy Excel Worksheet to Another Workbook in WinForms?

Steps to copy Excel worksheet to another workbook, programmatically:

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