System requirements for xlsgen

Platforms supported :

• Windows 2000 (Pro, Srv, AdvSrv) all service packs,
• Windows XP (Home,Pro) all service packs, Windows Server 2003 all service packs, Windows Vista (all service packs),
• Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R² (64-bit), Windows 8/8.1/10 Desktop
• 32-bit, 64-bit (more information here)

Note : if you are running on Windows 7, 8.1 or 10, please right-click on the .exe file after the download and choose "Run as administrator".

Excel file format versions supported :

• Excel 97 (.xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2000 (.xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel XP (.xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2003 (.xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2003 XML
• Excel 2007 (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2010 (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2013 (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2016 (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• Excel 2019 (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xls, .xlt, .xla, .xlm)
• OpenOffice and LibreOffice (.ods)

Note : xlsgen does not use Excel to read or generate those files.

Note : xlsgen also features a genuine PDF generator (Adobe PDF files), a genuine Open Office file generator (Open Office and compatible suites) and a genuine HTML document generator (web browser : Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera).

Programming languages supported :

• VB, VBA, ASP (VBScript, JScript)
• VB.NET, C#, MC++, and all other .NET languages (the CLR run-time uses COM interop to work)
• C, C++
• Java (through the Windows Java Native Interface interop layer)
• Delphi, Perl, Python, Sybase PowerBuilder, Ruby, Progress software ... and any other automation-compatible languages
• R, Rust, AutoIt
• PowerShell scripting

To get the developer bootstrapped, xlsgen ships with a ton of code samples written using the programming languages above.

.NET Environments supported :

• console, winforms applications or libraries
• ASP.NET web server
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) : all SSIS versions available (2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014)

System requirements :

• your system security must allow the registration of COM components, as xlsgen is a COM component. Note that there is a COM-free technique that, if enforced, lets you avoid this altogether.
• 32MB of RAM
• 15MB of free space in your hard drive
• Pentium 90Mhz and above
• A 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows

There is a native 64-bit version and 32-bit version of the xlsgen component.

There is also the isolated server (xlsgen.exe) makes it possible to run a 32-bit or 64-bit client application on a 64-bit operating system. The isolated server is a 32-bit process and runs using the WOW64 layer. xlsgen.exe is part of the installed files.