I have a Microsoft Excel file which have two columns and sixteen rows of Data. As image attached.
Excel Reference Image to import sequence data to NI TestStand
Please I need help to Import excel data to NI TestStand sequence file. This excel file for just reference only.
Please let me know if there is any confusion. Thanks
Is the data you are referring to in the Excel file properties? Or did you want to actually create Test Steps from Excel file?
If it's properties to load, then use the Property Loader Step. To make it easier, you can do an export which will create the XML layout which you can modify the data with the one in the Excel.
As far as creating a Test Step based on Excel file, that's not how TestStand works.
You can do this with Import Properties.
I would first create a test sequence as a model and export the properties from it. Then you can use that as a template to import the properties you have in your excel file.
From what I see from your example though. It may be easier to just manually create the sequences and steps, if that's all there is. If you have to create 300 steps or sequences it may be a better idea to utilize loops or create a module.
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I've been asked to strip an Excel file of macros, leaving only the data. I've been asked to do this by converting the Excel file to XML and then reading that file back into Excel using C#. This seems a bit inefficient to me and I was thinking that it would be easier to simply load the source Excel file into C# and then create a new target Excel file and add the sheets from the source back into the target.
I don't know where macros live inside an Excel file, so I'm not sure if this would accomplish the task or not. So, will this work? Will simply copying the sheets from one file to another strip it of it's macros or are they actually stored at the worksheet level?
As always, any and all suggestions are welcome, including alternate suggestions or even "why are you even doing this???". :)
To do this programmatically, you can use the ZipFile class from the System.IO.Compression library in .NET from C#. (.NET Framework 4.5)
Rename the file to add a ".zip" extension, and then open the file as a ZIP archive. Look for an element in the resultant "xl" folder called "vbproject.bin", and delete it. Remove the .zip extension. Macros gone.
Your best bet is to save the workbook as an xlsx, close it, open it, then save as a format of your choice.
This will strip the macros and is robust. It will also work if the VBA is locked for viewing.
Closing and reopening the workbook is necessary otherwise the macros are retained.
If you're needing to use C# to do this, I agree that it would be easier to load the source Excel file into C# and create a new target file only copying over the cells and sheets you need. Especially if you're doing this for a large amount of excel files I would recommend just creating a small console app that, when given an excel sheet, will automatically generate a new excel sheet with just the data for you.
One tool that I've found extremely useful and easy to use for such tasks is EPPlus.
I have a set of Excel spreadsheets with multiple tabs which contains each one table that I need to export as pictures in an automated process (I have dozens of such files to process).
While I could "manually" select the table, copy and paste them as image in another software, I need to industrialize this process to save time.
What would be the best approach using .Net or any builtin Excel feature?
Thanks
Check this question.
Programmatically (C#) convert Excel to an image
It looks like they're doing what you need?
Think I would use a small C# apop to do it - that assumes that you have a one off task and don't want to mess about with Excel templates or global excel macros and opening each spreadsheets etc.
I would do it like this:
dump all my excel docs in a single folder.
open up each doc in the folder in C# app
iterate each tab
If data capture data for all used ranges (from A1 to the whatever the bottom right cell is) - for any embedded charts pull them off as well
If chart pull it off
dump each to the folder as an image prefixed with the excel doc name and some iterative suffix like _chat01 _data01
How to rwead it ina and convert to image? See here => http://csharp.net-informations.com/excel/csharp-excel-chart-picturebox.htm
Copy all desired cells
Open MS-Paint
Paste
Save as PNG.
I have an XML file that I am trying to load to into an existing workbook in Excel. I realize that I can simply open the file and it will load into Excel easily. I am trying to get it to load to a specific sheet within my already open workbook. What would be the best practice for this? I have the path of the XML file which is in a string, but I am lost on where to go from there.
I would probably look into the Excel COM automation API. This allows you to take data that you have in memory, or in an XML file in your case, and programmatically place it into whatever cells you want in the workbook. It's a lot more work, but it gives you a lot more control.
From C#, you would want to look at the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel dlls, if you choose to go this route. Hopefully someone else will come along and give you an easier answer, but that's the best that I can think of right now.
I'm aware that I can generate an HTML <table> and save it as an .xls file to read into Excel, and that works fine and all, but it only gives me one sheet.
Is there a way to generate HTML so that I can have multiple sheets in a single .xls file? I've tried to simply generate more then one <table>, but they just end up getting appended to eachother.
Short Answer: No.
Longer Answer: You cannot cause an HTML generated page to split into multiple worksheets in an Excel file. Further, the HTML you generate for even a single page could cause Excel to choke on certain machines as it does the conversion when the file is loaded. We've seen a number of low powered machines take upwards of 5 minutes to show a HTML file in excel (simple table with rows/columns, nothing fancy) depending on size.
Better Answer: Use a third party product like ClosedXML or FileHelpers to generate a proper xlsx file.
there seems to be way though I didn't try it, see http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/kaushikborah28/79Nick08302007171404PM/79Nick.aspx and check the Worksheets attribute
check the official documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa155477%28office.10%29.aspx
After installing the Help file you can find an example of a file with 3 Worksheets in XML Reference / Excel Workbook...
You can use open source ClosedXML, а wrapper around OpenXML to conveniently generate xlsx files - i.e. Office 2007+ format Excel files.
I'm developing an application that as to export a dataset to excel, this dataset have 3 tables and the relation between them, I would like to export this to a single excel sheet where for each parent table there is a '+' sign that when expanded shows the child values related to it. To export a single table to excel I know how to do it, but to create this type of relation I have no idea how to do it, do I have to create a macro on the excel file?
I use a DevExpress Reports or a ActiveReports for this. I create a normal report and next i save it in xls, and Done. Its very complicated to this using us code. Its more easy to use a third-party components
There's a free tool: https://closedxml.codeplex.com/ to create XLSX outputs from code.