Has anybody used/evaluated both of these libraries and can tell me the difference? Otherwise has anyone here used SmartXLS for reading/creating/updating excel files and can tell me his experience? The later is considerably cheaper than the former.
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I have used SmartXLS for quite some projects for my clients and it works fine for me. I use it to create Excel files from scratch, but also to update existing Excel files (XML, XLS and XLSX). I only have textual information in my sheets. No formulas, images, etc. In the past, I have encountered a bug once. The SmartXLS team fixed it within one hour after I reported it. Recently, for another project I needed an extension to their library (save as XML). Even despite the fact that I do not have a support contract, they implemented it for me within two days. I wanted to share that they have good customer support, which is for me one of the most important aspects when I purchase a 3rd party library. Disclaimer: I do not work for SmartXLS and am not sponsored.

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Can you reuse a workbook in smartxls? For example, to change input and do recalculate? – Andrew Feb 04 '22 at 11:07
I have used SmartXLS is several projects to create spreadsheets from scratch, or to use one as template. Sofar everything I wanted it to do, it did. Disclaimer, I neither work for or am sponsored by SmartXLS' developers.

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