Question

I use the following code to export a datatable to excel

Is there a way to add a title to the excel sheet??

Here is the code I use to generate the excel sheet.

enter code here
    public void export2(DataTable dt)
    {
        System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid grid = 
                           new System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid();
        grid.HeaderStyle.Font.Bold = true;
        grid.DataSource = dt;
        grid.DataBind();
        using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("C:\\Reports\\Report.xls"))
        {
            using (HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
            {
                grid.RenderControl(hw);
            }
        }
    }

The output from this looks like this

Name    Employee ID 
abc         123 
def         456
ghi         789 
jkl         987
mno         654

is it possible to get the output as shown below??

Employee Report

Name    Employee ID 
abc         123 
def         456
ghi         789 
jkl         987
mno         654

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

One way would be to add the title(e.g. as Label) and the GridView/DataGrid to an UserControl wrapped in an ASP.NET Panel or DIV with appropriate CSS. Then you can render the whole UserControl instead of only the Grid.

Another would be to create real excel files instead of html-tables for example with EPPlus.