How to Insert Sparkline in Excel in C#, VB.NET

Sparkline is a tiny chart that can be inserted in cells to represent the trends in a series of values. Spire.XLS enables programmers to select a data cell range and display sparkline in another cell, usually next to data range. This article gives an example in C# and VB.NET to show how this purpose is achieved with a few lines of code.

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Step 1: Create a new Workbook and load the sample file.

Workbook wb = new Workbook();
wb.LoadFromFile("sample.xlsx");

Step 2: Get the Worksheet from Workbook.

Worksheet ws = wb.Worksheets[0];

Step 3: Set SparklineType as line and apply line sparkline to SparklineCollection.

SparklineGroup sparklineGroup = ws.SparklineGroups.AddGroup(SparklineType.Line);
SparklineCollection sparklines = sparklineGroup.Add();

Step 4: Call SparklineCollection.Add(DateRange, ReferenceRange) mothed get data from a range of cells and display sparkline chart inside another cell, e.g., a sparkline in E2 shows the trend of values from A2 to D2.

sparklines.Add(ws["A2:D2"], ws["E2"]);
sparklines.Add(ws["A3:D3"], ws["E3"]);
sparklines.Add(ws["A4:D4"], ws["E4"]);
sparklines.Add(ws["A5:D5"], ws["E5"]);

Step 5: Save the file.

wb.SaveToFile("output.xlsx",ExcelVersion.Version2010);

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How to Insert Sparkline in Excel in C#, VB.NET

Full Code:

[C#]

using Spire.Xls;
namespace InsertSparkline
{
    class Program
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            Workbook wb = new Workbook();
            wb.LoadFromFile("sample.xlsx");
            Worksheet ws = wb.Worksheets[0];

            SparklineGroup sparklineGroup = ws.SparklineGroups.AddGroup(SparklineType.Line);
            SparklineCollection sparklines = sparklineGroup.Add();
            sparklines.Add(ws["A2:D2"], ws["E2"]);
            sparklines.Add(ws["A3:D3"], ws["E3"]);
            sparklines.Add(ws["A4:D4"], ws["E4"]);
            sparklines.Add(ws["A5:D5"], ws["E5"]);

            wb.SaveToFile("output.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2010);

        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports Spire.Xls
Namespace InsertSparkline
	Class Program

		Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())

			Dim wb As New Workbook()
			wb.LoadFromFile("sample.xlsx")
			Dim ws As Worksheet = wb.Worksheets(0)

			Dim sparklineGroup As SparklineGroup = ws.SparklineGroups.AddGroup(SparklineType.Line)
			Dim sparklines As SparklineCollection = sparklineGroup.Add()
			sparklines.Add(ws("A2:D2"), ws("E2"))
			sparklines.Add(ws("A3:D3"), ws("E3"))
			sparklines.Add(ws("A4:D4"), ws("E4"))
			sparklines.Add(ws("A5:D5"), ws("E5"))

			wb.SaveToFile("output.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2010)

		End Sub
	End Class
End Namespace

How to Insert Sparkline in Excel in C#, VB.NET

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