ClosedXML add image

Question

I am able to add in an image to an excel spreadsheet by using OpenXML. However for the rest of the program I use ClosedXML to add data. I can add data at a specific cell using the column and row index. If I can add an image to an excel (It currently is a separate layer it seems, hovering over cells), how can I add it to a cell using ClosedXML?

    //Adds an image to the excel file
    public void AddImageToExcel(SpreadsheetDocument sd, MemoryStream imagestream)
    {
        DrawingsPart dp = sd.WorkbookPart.WorksheetParts.First().AddNewPart<DrawingsPart>();
        ImagePart imgp = dp.AddImagePart(ImagePartType.Jpeg, sd.WorkbookPart.WorksheetParts.First().GetIdOfPart(dp));

        MemoryStream bmstream = new MemoryStream(imagestream.ToArray());
        bmstream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

        MemoryStream fs;
        using (fs = imagestream)
        {
            fs.Position = 0;
            imgp.FeedData(fs);
        }

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualDrawingProperties nvdp = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualDrawingProperties();
        nvdp.Id = 1025;
        nvdp.Name = "Chart Image";
        nvdp.Description = "Image";
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.PictureLocks piclocks = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.PictureLocks();
        piclocks.NoChangeAspect = true;
        piclocks.NoChangeArrowheads = true;
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualPictureDrawingProperties nvpdp = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualPictureDrawingProperties();
        nvpdp.PictureLocks = piclocks;
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualPictureProperties nvpp = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.NonVisualPictureProperties();
        nvpp.NonVisualDrawingProperties = nvdp;
        nvpp.NonVisualPictureDrawingProperties = nvpdp;

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Stretch stretch = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Stretch();
        stretch.FillRectangle = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.FillRectangle();

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.BlipFill blipfill = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.BlipFill();
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Blip blip = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Blip();
        blip.Embed = dp.GetIdOfPart(imgp);
        blip.CompressionState = DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.BlipCompressionValues.Print;
        blipfill.Blip = blip;
        blipfill.SourceRectangle = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.SourceRectangle();
        blipfill.Append(stretch);

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Transform2D t2d = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Transform2D();
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Offset offset = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Offset();
        offset.X = 0;
        offset.Y = 0;
        t2d.Offset = offset;
        Bitmap bm = new Bitmap(bmstream);

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Extents extents = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Extents();
        extents.Cx = ((long)bm.Width * (long)((float)914400 / bm.HorizontalResolution));
        extents.Cy = ((long)bm.Height * (long)((float)914400 / bm.VerticalResolution));
        bm.Dispose();
        t2d.Extents = extents;
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.ShapeProperties sp = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.ShapeProperties();
        sp.BlackWhiteMode = DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.BlackWhiteModeValues.Auto;
        sp.Transform2D = t2d;
        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.PresetGeometry prstgeom = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.PresetGeometry();
        prstgeom.Preset = DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.ShapeTypeValues.Rectangle;
        prstgeom.AdjustValueList = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.AdjustValueList();
        sp.Append(prstgeom);
        sp.Append(new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.NoFill());

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.Picture picture = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.Picture();
        picture.NonVisualPictureProperties = nvpp;
        picture.BlipFill = blipfill;
        picture.ShapeProperties = sp;

        DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.Position pos = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Drawing.Spreadsheet.Position();

        //The position corrosponds these numbers. X= 600000 & y = 200000 adds up to 1 cell
        pos.X = 600000;
        pos.Y = 200000;

        Extent ext = new Extent();
        ext.Cx = extents.Cx;
        ext.Cy = extents.Cy;
        AbsoluteAnchor anchor = new AbsoluteAnchor();

        Xdr.Position pp = new Xdr.Position();
        pp.X = 0;
        pp.Y = 0;


        anchor.Position = pp;
        anchor.Position = pos;
        anchor.Extent = ext;
        anchor.Append(picture);
        anchor.Append(new ClientData());
        WorksheetDrawing wsd = new WorksheetDrawing();
        wsd.Append(anchor);
        Drawing drawing = new Drawing();
        drawing.Id = dp.GetIdOfPart(imgp);
        wsd.Save(dp);
        sd.WorkbookPart.WorksheetParts.First().Worksheet.Append(drawing);
        MessageBox.Show("Excel File created");
    }

This is the code I used, which I found here on stack overflow somewhere. I modified it to use a MemoryStream for the image. So firstly one of the problems I have is that I pass a spreadsheet document to the method, however I'm not sure what I can do in ClosedXML to fix this Really appreciate any help with how I could go about this. Ideally I would love to simply say

ws.Cell(colnum, rownum).Value = AddImageToExcel(wb, ImageToMemoryStream(imagelocation));

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

ClosedXML now has basic image/picture support. As per https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML/wiki/How-can-I-insert-an-image :

using (var wb = new XLWorkbook())
{
  var ws = wb.AddWorksheet("Sheet1");

  var imagePath = @"c:\path\to\your\image.jpg";
  var image = ws.AddPicture(imagePath)
      .MoveTo(ws.Cell("B3").Address)
      .Scale(.5); // optional: resize picture
      
  wb.SaveAs("file.xlsx");
}