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How to Export Datagridview contents to Excel

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  1 year ago

  by abduljelyl

  abduljelyl

  , Nigeria

  Joined 2 years ago

  I have to export the data present in the datagridview to Microsoft Excel.  It is a window application using c#.  Does anyone know how to do it.  Please help.

  Thanks

   

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  1 year ago

  by aliudmilov

  ali udmilov

  , Bulgaria

  Joined 2 years ago

  See DataGridView Extension from CompletIT - it's free and you can export to Excel, tml, Pdf and do 1000 more things ;)

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  1 year ago

  by mgs510b

  Michael G. Meredith-Saunders

  , United States

  Joined 1 year ago

  I think this would be useful
  

   

  Response.Clear()
          Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=filename.xls")
          Response.Charset = ""
          Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache)
          Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xls"
          Dim stringWrite As New System.IO.StringWriter
          Dim htmlWrite As New System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite)
          Dim dGrid As New DataGrid
          dGrid.DataSource = tempDataset
          dGrid.DataBind()
  
          dGrid.RenderControl(htmlWrite)
          Response.Write(stringWrite.ToString())
          Response.End()

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  1 year ago

  by Mtisu

  Sungeni Maleta

  , Malawi

  Joined 2 years ago

  By using C# is it possible to use the code you have given??

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  1 year ago

  by Jerryvikram

  Jerome L Vikram

  , India

  Joined 1 year ago

   Hi Nitin,

  Check this link you can get some help from this link. 

  http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/2/10017590/export-to-excel.aspx 

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  1 year ago

  by MZee

  Mukhtiar Zamin

  , United States

  Joined 1 year ago

  hi nitin004 ,
  You can easily export content of DataGridView to Excel sheet. There are several articles based on it.
  Just checkout the given links.
  
  http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/ExportDataToExcelUsingCS.aspx
  http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/office_automation.aspx
  http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/export2excel.aspx
  http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ExportToExcel.aspx?df=100&forumid=146533&exp=0&select=1357703
  http://www.dotnetspider.com/qa/Question45425.aspx
  
  Or just checkout the given code. 

  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application wapp;
  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet wsheet;
  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook wbook;
  wapp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
  wapp.Visible = false;
  wbook = wapp.Workbooks.Add(true);
  wsheet = (Worksheet)wbook.ActiveSheet;
  try
  {
     int iX;
     int iY;
     for (int i = 0; i < this.DataGridResults.Columns.Count; i++)
     {
         wsheet.Cells[1, i + 1] = this.DataGridResults.Columns[i].HeaderText;
         wsheet.Font.Bold = true;
     }

     for (int i = 0; i < this.DataGridResults.Rows.Count; i++)
     {  
         DataGridViewRow row = this.DataGridResults.Rows[i];
         for (int j = 0; j < row.Cells.Count; j++)
         {
             DataGridViewCell cell = row.Cells[j];
             try
             {
                     wsheet.Cells[i + 2, j + 1] = (cell.Value == null) ? "" : cell.Value.ToString();
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
                    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
             }
          }
      }
      wapp.Visible = true;
   }
   catch (Exception ex1)
   {
        MessageBox.Show(ex1.Message);
   }
  wapp.UserControl = true;

  Hope this will help you.
  Thanks & Regards
  Dilipv

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  1 year ago

  by mohammed seidu

  MOHAMMED SEIDU

  Accra, Ghana

  Joined 1 year ago
  I developed this function which i think is fantastic and wants to share it with the rest of the world: //fxn that exports content of a datagridview object to an excel file public static void export_datagridview_to_excel(DataGridView dgv, string excel_file) { int cols; //open file StreamWriter wr = new StreamWriter(excel_file); //determine the number of columns and write columns to file cols = dgv.Columns.Count; for (int i = 0; i < cols; i++) { wr.Write(dgv.Columns[i].Name.ToString().ToUpper() + "\t"); } wr.WriteLine(); //write rows to excel file for (int i = 0; i < (dgv.Rows.Count - 1); i++) { for (int j = 0; j < cols; j++) { if (dgv.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value != null) wr.Write(dgv.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value + "\t"); else { wr.Write("\t"); } } wr.WriteLine(); } //close file wr.Close(); }
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  1 year ago

  by mohammed seidu

  MOHAMMED SEIDU

  Accra, Ghana

  Joined 1 year ago
  //please import: System.IO
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  20 days ago

  by BarbaMariolino

  Filip

  , Croatia (Hrvatska)

  Joined 1 year ago

  Hi!

  You can certainly do this with Excel Automation, but I suggest not to use it. For details see Excel Interop issues.

  Try to find some 3rd party library that reads and writes Excel files without use of Excel Automation.

  I use GemBox.Spreadsheet for some time now, and it is great. It is very fast and easy to use.

  Here is an example how to export DataGrid to Excel with GemBox.Spreadsheet library.

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