Export DataGridView to Excel

Mile,

I was faced with the same problem. Because users had different versions of
Excel installed, I could not find one solution.

Finally I created an html table from the datagridview bindingsource. If you
save this as *.xls, it seems to open in all versions of Excel.

You can dress up the html with a header and description, but the basis is
the table.

See if that works for you.

Rick

No problem, I've written some code to do this using CSV...

Public Sub WriteCSVFile(ByVal dgv As DataGridView)

Dim OutputStr As String = ""

Dim nCol As DataGridViewColumn
' Write the column headers
For Each nCol In dgv.Columns
' First row, write column names
If nCol.Visible = True Then
OutputStr = OutputStr & "," & nCol.HeaderText
End If
Next
' Trim off the first comma
If OutputStr.StartsWith(",") Then OutputStr = OutputStr.Substring(1,
OutputStr.Length - 1)

Dim nRow As DataGridViewRow
Dim nCell As DataGridViewCell
Dim OutputLine As String = ""
For Each nRow In dgv.Rows
For Each nCell In nRow.Cells
If nCell.Visible = True Then
OutputLine = OutputLine & "," &
nCell.FormattedValue.ToString.Replace(",", "")
End If
Next
' Trim off the first comma
If OutputLine.StartsWith(",") Then OutputLine =
OutputLine.Substring(1, OutputLine.Length - 1)
' New line? Add it
If OutputLine <"" Then OutputStr = OutputStr & vbCrLf &
OutputLine
Next
MsgBox(OutputStr)
End Sub

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Mile,

I was faced with the same problem. Because users had different versions
of Excel installed, I could not find one solution.

Finally I created an html table from the datagridview bindingsource. If
you save this as *.xls, it seems to open in all versions of Excel.

You can dress up the html with a header and description, but the basis is
the table.

See if that works for you.

Thanks Rick,

That's a great idea. Just a normal HTML table saved as ".xls"

I've made a CSV solution for now which works well but has of course no
formatting.

*fap*

Mike Wilson schreef:

Hello all,

I'd like to export a DataGridView to Excel. I am using .NET 2.0 and VB.NET.

But I don't know if the user has Excel on their machines, so can't use
COM Excel object.

Any ideas please? How is an Excel file put together?

I did it using CarlosAg Excel writer (it generates excel xml)...

http://www.timvw.be/datagridview-to-excel/

(It tries to mimic the CellStyle and format as much as possible.. Be
aware that excel has a limitted color palette, eg: Color.LightGreen as
BackColor in a Cell would be greyish in the sheet)

--
Tim Van Wassenhove <url:http://www.timvw.be/>

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Mike Wilson schreef:

>Hello all,

I'd like to export a DataGridView to Excel. I am using .NET 2.0 and
VB.NET.

But I don't know if the user has Excel on their machines, so can't use
COM Excel object.

Any ideas please? How is an Excel file put together?

I did it using CarlosAg Excel writer (it generates excel xml)...

http://www.timvw.be/datagridview-to-excel/

(It tries to mimic the CellStyle and format as much as possible.. Be aware
that excel has a limitted color palette, eg: Color.LightGreen as BackColor
in a Cell would be greyish in the sheet)

Hi Tim,

Useful, thanks. I'll have a read and pass the info on.

Mike