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Workbook.ExternalWorkbooks Property

Provides access to the collection of source workbooks used for creating external references in the current workbook.

You need a license for the DevExpress Office File API Subscription or DevExpress Universal Subscription to use this property in production code.

Namespace: DevExpress.Spreadsheet

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Document.Processor

#Declaration

#Property Value

Type Description
ExternalWorkbookCollection

An ExternalWorkbookCollection object.

#Remarks

To use cell references and defined names contained in another workbook, you should add a workbook to the ExternalWorkbooks collection.

The following code snippet creates a workbook, populates it with random data by importing a data table and adds to the collection of external workbooks.

View Example

Workbook externalWorkbook = new Workbook();
externalWorkbook.Options.Save.CurrentFileName = "ExternalDocument.xlsx";
// Check whether the external workbook is already referenced.
foreach (IWorkbook item in myWorkbook.ExternalWorkbooks)
{
    if (item.Options.Save.CurrentFileName == externalWorkbook.Options.Save.CurrentFileName)
        return;
}
externalWorkbook.Worksheets[0].Import(CreateDataTable(10), false, 0, 0);
externalWorkbook.SaveDocument("ExternalDocument.xlsx");
myWorkbook.ExternalWorkbooks.Add(externalWorkbook);

Subsequently you can reference this workbook from the current workbook, as illustrated in the code below.

View Example

if (myWorkbook.ExternalWorkbooks.Count == 0)
{
    return;
}
IWorkbook extWorkbook = (IWorkbook)myWorkbook.ExternalWorkbooks[0];
string extWorkbookName = extWorkbook.Options.Save.CurrentFileName;
string sFormula = String.Format("=[{0}]Sheet1!A1", extWorkbookName);
myWorkbook.Worksheets[0].Cells["A1"].Formula = sFormula;
myWorkbook.SaveDocument("Test.xlsx");
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Test.xlsx");

The following code snippet (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contains a reference to the ExternalWorkbooks property.

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#Implements

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