Extract OLE Objects from Workbook

Sometimes you need to extract OLE objects from a workbook. Aspose.Cells supports extracting and saving those OLE objects.

This article shows how to create a console application in Visual Studio .NET and extract different OLE objects from a workbook with a few simple lines of code.

Extract OLE Objects from a Workbook

Creating a Template Workbook

1. Create a workbook in Microsoft Excel.
2. Add a Microsoft Word document, an Excel workbook, and a PDF document as OLE objects on the first worksheet.

Template document with OLE objects (OLEFile.xls)

Next, extract the OLE objects and save them to the hard disk with their respective file types.

Download and Install Aspose.Cells

1. Download Aspose.Cells for .NET.
2. Install it on your development computer.

All Aspose components, when installed, work in evaluation mode. The evaluation mode has no time limit and only injects watermarks into produced documents.

Create a Project

Start Visual Studio .NET and create a new console application. This example will show a C# console application, but you can use VB.NET too.

1. Add References
   1. Add a reference to the Aspose.Cells component in your project; for example, add a reference to ...\Program Files\Aspose\Aspose.Cells\Bin\Net1.0\Aspose.Cells.dll.

Extract OLE Objects

The code below does the actual work of finding and extracting OLE objects. The OLE objects (DOC, XLS, and PDF files) are saved to disk.