Writing an Image in Excel File

Writing an Image in Excel File

This post will explain you how to write an image in excel file. You first need to define the path of the image in web.config file. Just write the code in web.config file as
<add key="LogoPath" value="E:\\MyProject.Web\\Content\\Images\\ProjectLogo.jpg"/>

Now draw this logo into your excel file using System.Drawing.Image class. An abstract base class that provides functionality for the Bitmap and Metafile descended classes. We will use FromFile() method that is used to create image from the specified file. The file path is passed as an argument to FromFile() method. We can use its overloaded form where we need to specify another argument as boolean i.e., true or false. This specifies whether to use embedded color management information in that file.

Once this Image is created, now create final imagepath that will be rendered in the excel. Here we need to create an image tag(<IMG="" SRC="" WIDTH="" HEIGHT="" />). In this we need to specify the image's width and height by using the above created Image.

Now our iamgepath is ready for finally rendering it into excel file. The code is as follows:

NOTE: This code has a limitation. You need to specify the path every time whenever the image location is changed. The better solution is to use a mapping between ServerPath and LocalPhysicalPath.

HttpContext.Response.Write("<TR style='font-size:12.0pt; text-align:center; font-style:italic; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; font-family:Book Antiqua;'>");
string filePath = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LogoPath"];
System.Drawing.Image imgPhoto = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(filePath);
string imagepath = string.Format("<img src='{0}' width='{1}' height='{2}'/>", filePath, imgPhoto.Width, imgPhoto.Height);
imgPhoto.Dispose();
HttpContext.Response.Write("<Td>");
HttpContext.Response.Write(imagepath);
HttpContext.Response.Write("</Td>");
HttpContext.Response.Write("</TR>");