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How to serialize or deserialize in WinForms Spreadsheet?
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Serialization and deserialization in spreadsheet
WinForms Spreadsheet (SfSpreadsheet) provides support to serialize and deserialize the workbook using XlsIO.
Serialization:
For serialization, you can use SaveAsXml method of IWorkbook.
// Serialize
MemoryStream serializedBinary = new MemoryStream();
this.Spreadsheet.Workbook.SaveAsXml(serializedBinary, ExcelXmlSaveType.MSExcel);Deserialization:
For Deserialization, you can use OpenFromXml method of IWorkbook.
// Deserialize
serializedBinary.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
ExcelEngine engine = new ExcelEngine();
IWorkbook workbook = engine.Excel.Workbooks.OpenFromXml(serializedBinary, ExcelXmlOpenType.MSExcel);
this.Spreadsheet.Open(workbook);Samples:
