Question

I have a DevExpress WPF grid (version 9.3). When I export to excel, it has horrible additional rows* that completely mess up excel’s functionality such as auto filter.

I’ve been trying to make sense of the documentation and I think that the solution may lie in setting TableView.PrintCellStyle somehow. But it’s really not clear.

I am using the TableView.ExportToXls(string path); method.

Is there a quick way of switching off this behaviour and getting a working xls file?

*I understand that this is to help with creating a spreadsheet that looks the same as the grid. Horrible default behaviour – a working spreadsheet is more important than it looking like the UI.

EDIT: @DmitryG – I have tried this and now, instead of three lines I now get two. Better, but not solved.

I have also checked the KB article you cited and get the following result:

I am using version 9.3.6.

Anything else I can try?

EDIT 2: Have tried the value converter approach. Getting the same additional row.

Worst case, is there anyway of excluding these columns from the export?

Answer 1

I was still getting the additional rows. The quickest and easiest way to get around this was to set the EditSettings of the column so it exports ‘True’ or ‘False’, export the grid then set the column back to a checkbox.

Thusly:

public void ExportGridToExcel()
{
    TableView.Grid.Columns["*FieldName*"].EditSettings = new TextEditSettings();

    TableView.ExportToXls(@"C:\temp\spreadsheet.xls");

    TableView.Grid.Columns["*FieldName*"].EditSettings = new CheckEditSettings();
}

NB It’s the fieldname the column is bound to and NOT the column name. That caught me out for a minute.