Decrease the Calculation Time of Cell.Calculate method

Possible Usage Scenarios

Normally, we recommend users to call Workbook.CalculateFormula() method once and then get the calculated values of the individual cells. But sometimes, users do not want to calculate entire workbook. They just want to calculate a single cell. Aspose.Cells provides CalculationOptions.Recursive property which you can set false and it will decrease the calculation time of individual cell significantly. Because when the recursive property is set to true, then all the dependents of cells are recalculated on each call. But when the recursive property is set to false, then dependent cells are calculated only once and are not calculated again on subsequent calls.

Decrease the Calculation Time of Cell.Calculate() method

The following sample code illustrates the usage of CalculationOptions.Recursive property. Please execute this code with the given sample excel file and check its console output. You will find that setting the recursive property to false has decreased the calculation time significantly. Please also read the comments for a better understanding of this property.

Console Output

This is the console output of the above sample code when executed with the given sample excel file on our machine. Please note, your output may differ but the elapsed time after setting the recursive property to false will always be less than setting it to true.

 Recursive true: 51 seconds

Recursive false: 16 seconds