Question

Does anyone have an example (code or a link) that will allow me to export a gridview template field to excel? Here is an example of what I mean. Assume I have the following GridView Declaration:

<asp:GridView Id='gvResults' runat='server'>     <Columns>         <asp:TemplateField HeaderText='Contact Info'>             <ItemTemplate>                 <b>Name:</b><%# Eval('Name') %><br/>                 <b>Address:</b><%# Eval('Address') %><br/>                 <b>Phone:</b><%# Eval('Phone') %><br/>                 <b>E-mail:</b><%# Eval('Email') %>             </ItemTemplate>         </asp:TemplateField>     </Columns> </asp:GridView> 

When I export to excel, I want to export the fields in the template field to columns in the excel file, so it will look similar to this:

Name Address Phone E-mail

==== ======= ==== =====

John 123 Rd 40330 [e-mail]

Mark 456 St 22039 [e-mail]

Answer 1

I would highly recommend to anyone using out of the box asp gridview controls to consider spending some money on a third party package (DevExpress is my favorite)

That being said, I have used this before when I had no other choice