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ExcelReports 1.0
Copyright (C) 2009 Nils Reimers (http://excelreports.sourceforge.net/)



DESCRIPTION
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ExcelReports is a .Net 2.0 library for creating powerful reports in Excel format. The library takes an Excel template (a normal .xls file) and replaces placeholders, wich are between { and }, with the data assigned to that placeholders. The big advantage is that the costumer can easily modify the templates, he just needs basic Excel skills, so that he can get individual reports. The output of ExcelReports is in Excel 2000 format. 


The core of ExcelReports is the Java Excel API (http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/). Because the Java Excel API is written in Java, we need the a Java Runtime for our .Net Application.
There are to different ways for doing this:

1) We can use IKVM (ikvm.net) to convert the Java Excel API (jxl.jar) to a .Net Assembly. The client need than later just the .Net framework for running our application. The binaries which uses IKVM is found in the subfolder IKVM. Please see the licence terms of IKVM.


2) Another way is to convert the Java Excel API to a J# version. This conversion can be found in the jExcelNet folder. On the client computer the Visual J# Redistributable Package have to be installed. 
The binaries for this version can be found in the Visual_JSharp folder.


USAGE
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Please see the examples for the usage of this library. A more precise description will follow, so please check the website for updates.
Your project just needs a reference to the ExcelReports library, any other reference is not necessary.



LICENSE
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.


The Java Excel API is issued on under the GNU Lesser General Public License. For more details please visit is issued on under the GNU Lesser General Public License.



MORE INFORMATIONS
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ExcelReports: http://excelreports.sourceforge.net/
Java Excel API: http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/
IKVM.Net: http://www.ikvm.net/