Export Gridview/Listview to Excel with Color formatting

In this article, I explain how to export Gridview / Listview to excel with same color formatting using .net.

Introduction:

Here in this article I explain on how to export Gridview / Listview to excel with same color formatting using .net. Based on the gridivew fomatting we have to export with same row alignment and format.

Export to Excel:

It's shows that using .net we are export gridvie to excel with color formatting that we are initialized in the girdview. It explains that we extract same thing what we have in the gridview.

Initially generate the temp data to bind into the datagrid.

//Create temp datatable for bind values

DataTable dtTemp = new DataTable(); DataRow dr;

//create schema

dtTemp.Columns.Add("CustId"); dtTemp.Columns.Add("CusName");

//Add temp datas

dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr["CustId"] = "1"; dr["CusName"] = "AA1"; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr);

dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr["CustId"] = "2"; dr["CusName"] = "BB2"; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr);

dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr["CustId"] = "3"; dr["CusName"] = "CC3"; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr);

dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr["CustId"] = "4"; dr["CusName"] = "DD4"; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr);

dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr["CustId"] = "5"; dr["CusName"] = "EE5"; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr);

Once get the data, just proceed the below code and export into the excel. You can alter the cells and header based on the requirements and UI.

//Reponse content

Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=ExportExcel.xls");

Response.Charset = "";

Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xls";

//Objects

System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new System.IO.StringWriter();

System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);

//Add the control to the forms

DataGrid dgRecord= new DataGrid();

this.form1.Controls.Add(dgRecord);

//Color Setttings

dgRecord.HeaderStyle.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;

dgRecord.DataSource = dtTemp;

dgRecord.DataBind();

//Cells color settings

foreach (DataGridItem dgi in dgRecord.Items)

    foreach (TableCell tcGridCells in dgi.Cells)

        tcGridCells.Attributes.Add("class", "sborder");

//Render the datagrid

dgRecord.RenderControl(htmlWrite);

//Add the style sheet class here

Response.Write(@"<style> .sborder { color : Red;border : 1px Solid Balck; } </style> ");

//Export

Response.Write(stringWrite.ToString());

//End

Response.End();