xHow to get Images from an Excel XLSX Spreadsheet in C# .NET Framework

Trying to deal with Excel format directly in C# is a one-way ticket to Frustration Town, let me tell you. There are so many different elements that interweave to make up a spreadsheet, that dealing with all of them just to extract an image is often not even worth the time and effort. That is, unless you have access to a lovely little API that will get this done for you, instead.

Let’s begin with installing our package, like so:

Install-Package Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.DocumentAndDataConvert -Version 3.2.8

Now we are going to go ahead with calling our image extraction function:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.DocumentAndDataConvert.Api;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.DocumentAndDataConvert.Client;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.DocumentAndDataConvert.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class EditDocumentXlsxGetImagesExample
{
public void main()
{
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
Configuration.Default.AddApiKey("Apikey", "YOUR_API_KEY");
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// Configuration.Default.AddApiKeyPrefix("Apikey", "Bearer");
var apiInstance = new EditDocumentApi();
var input = new GetXlsxImagesRequest(); // GetXlsxImagesRequest | Document input request
try
{
// Get images from a Excel XLSX spreadsheet, worksheet
GetXlsxImagesResponse result = apiInstance.EditDocumentXlsxGetImages(input);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling EditDocumentApi.EditDocumentXlsxGetImages: " + e.Message );
}
}
}
}

And just like that, easy.