How to define Excel culture in WinForms ?

3 mins read

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 define the culture.

Excel culture is defined based on the machine by default. In addition, XlsIO provides an option to control the culture by changing the current and UI culture settings of an application.

For example, the value 12.43452 in German culture is returned as 12,43452, and in US culture, it is returned as 12.43452 when accessed using the DisplayText property. The following steps show how to control an Excel document to a specific culture.

Steps to define Excel culture programmatically:

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

Create new C# console application

Create a new C# console application

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

Install NuGet package

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

using Syncfusion.XlsIO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;

VB.NET

Imports Syncfusion.XlsIO
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Globalization

Step 4: Add the following code snippet to define Excel culture using C# and VB.NET. It should be noted that the thread culture must be set before accessing the value. Hence, it is recommended to set the culture before the instantiation of the ExcelEngine object.

Please refer the below code snippet to set culture using XlsIO in C#/VB.NET.

// Set the Excel document to German culture
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
 
// Create an instance of ExcelEngine
using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
    // Instantiate the Excel application object
    IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
 
    // Set the default application version
    application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2016;
 
    // Create a workbook
    IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Create(1);
 
    // Access the first worksheet object in the worksheets collection
    IWorksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
 
    // Set a value to A1
    worksheet.Range["A1"].Number = 12.43452;
 
    // Retrieve DisplayText from A1
    string displaytext = worksheet.Range["A1"].DisplayText;
 
    // Save the workbook
    workbook.SaveAs("ExcelCulture.xlsx");
}

VB.NET

'Set the Excel document to German culture
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New CultureInfo("de-DE")
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo("de-DE")
 
'Create an instance of ExcelEngine
Using excelEngine As ExcelEngine = New ExcelEngine()
 
    'Instantiate the Excel application object
    Dim application As IApplication = excelEngine.Excel
 
    'Set the default application version
    application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2016
 
    'Create a workbook
    Dim workbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Create(1)
 
    'Access the first worksheet object in the worksheets collection
    Dim worksheet As IWorksheet = workbook.Worksheets(0)
 
    'Set a value to A1
    worksheet.Range("A1").Number = 12.43452
 
    'Retrieve DisplayText from A1
    Dim displaytext As String = worksheet.Range("A1").DisplayText
 
    'Save the workbook
    workbook.SaveAs("ExcelCulture.xlsx")
 
End Using

A complete working example to define an Excel culture can be downloaded from DefineExcelCulture.zip.

Take a moment to peruse the documentation, where you can find basic worksheet data manipulation options along with features like Conditional Formatting, worksheet calculations through Formulas, adding Charts in worksheet or workbook, organizing and analyzing data through Tables and Pivot Tables, appending multiple records to worksheet using Template Markers, and most importantly PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

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

An online sample link to generate Excel file.

How to define Excel culture in WinForms ?

Steps to define Excel culture programmatically:

See Also:

Access denied