John Robin
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John Robin
asked on 21 Mar 2017, 12:45 AM
Hello,
I know this is an approved feature already. but no schedule of release yet.
Is there an alternative way at the moment in order to do this.?
I really need to use .xlsb
Regards,
John
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Hi John,
As you mentioned, the feature request is logged in our Feedback Portal here. Currently, it is marked as Approved, which means it hasn't started development yet (you'll see the status change from "In Development" to "Completed" when it's done).
At this time, the document processing libraries do not surface such an API, so there is not a workaround that you can use to accomplish this.
If this is a mission critical requirement, you could try the conversion yourself:
1 - First, export (or save) as xlsx as you'd normally
2 - Get the saved xlsx file and manually convert it to xlsb (see here for how to do this)
Then, in the future when we add the format, you can go back and optimize your code to so the single step export as xlsb.
Note: I cannot confirm the approach in that StackOverflow post will work as this is just a suggestion. You could research other xlsx -> xlsb conversions to achieve the same outcome.
I hope I was able point you in the right direction.
Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Telerik by Progress
As you mentioned, the feature request is logged in our Feedback Portal here. Currently, it is marked as Approved, which means it hasn't started development yet (you'll see the status change from "In Development" to "Completed" when it's done).
At this time, the document processing libraries do not surface such an API, so there is not a workaround that you can use to accomplish this.
If this is a mission critical requirement, you could try the conversion yourself:
1 - First, export (or save) as xlsx as you'd normally
2 - Get the saved xlsx file and manually convert it to xlsb (see here for how to do this)
Then, in the future when we add the format, you can go back and optimize your code to so the single step export as xlsb.
Note: I cannot confirm the approach in that StackOverflow post will work as this is just a suggestion. You could research other xlsx -> xlsb conversions to achieve the same outcome.
I hope I was able point you in the right direction.
Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Telerik by Progress
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Azharshah
commented on 09 Mar 2023, 08:03 AM
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Hello Telerik Team,
Do we have the solution now to generate/convert .xlsb format.
Please help on this, as we really need it.
Thanks and Regards,
Muhammad Azhar Shah
Lance | Manager Technical Support
commented on 09 Mar 2023, 03:23 PM
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Hi Azharshah, you can always track the feature request's current status in the linked item. For your convenience, here is the link again => Spreadsheet: Add support for import/export of XLSB documents (telerik.com). Please add your upvote and leave a comment if you'd like.