Question

I would like to export a GridView to excel, which is easy enough. But above the grid, in Excel, I would like some other information for identification. Can I somehow export things other than gridviews while then putting in the gridview below?

Edit: For some reason when the GridView1 is visible and I try to export, the entire page exports and not just the gridview. Not sure why!

Protected Sub btnExport_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExport.Click     'Create a StringWriter and HtmlTextWriter     Dim sw As System.IO.StringWriter = New System.IO.StringWriter()     Dim htw As New System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(sw)      'Clear the Response object's content and specify the header for the HTML response and type of application file to create     Response.ClearContent()     Response.AddHeader('content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=SaveFile.xls')     Response.ContentType = 'application/vnd.ms-excel'     Response.Charset = ''     EnableViewState = False      htw.WriteLine('Test, test, test')      Try         'Check for the number of GridView rows         If GridView1.Rows.Count < 65535 Then             'Turn sorting and paging off and rebind the GridView control             GridView1.AllowSorting = False             GridView1.AllowPaging = False             GridView1.PageSize = GridView1.Rows.Count             GridView1.AutoGenerateSelectButton() = False             GridView1.DataBind()               'Render the GridView1 as HTML - this will cause an error that will fire the VerifyRenderingInServerForm event -- this event is trapped by the Overriding sub procedure given at the end of the program listing             GridView1.RenderControl(htw)              'Write the response             Response.Write(sw.ToString())             Response.End()              'Turn sorting and paging on and rebind the GridView control             GridView1.AllowSorting = True             GridView1.AllowPaging = True             '.GridView1.PageSize = 10             GridView1.AutoGenerateSelectButton() = True             GridView1.DataBind()         End If     Catch ex As Exception      End Try  End Sub 

Answer 1

Yes you can.

Do something like this:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Write('some string value') 

before you pass your gridview.