Question

we are generating an Excel report and we need to sort the data programmatically before saving the file.

Is it possible to sort a specific column of an Excel file programmatically using vb.net?

As per your suggestion, in order to generate excel report with sorting on specific column I just implemented the logic as below..

Dim MyRange As Excel.Range   gobjExcelReportSheet.Activate()       MyRange = gobjExcelReportSheet.Range('A8', 'L8')       MyRange.Select()       MyRange.Sort(Key1:=MyRange.Range('L8'), _                    Order1:=XlSortOrder.xlAscending, _                    Header:=XlYesNoGuess.xlGuess, _                    MatchCase:=False, _                    Orientation:=XlSortOrientation.xlSortColumns) 

I tried this logic just before saving the file and even just after saving the file but it is not giving any result i.e. with sorting result or even I am not getting any error.

But the following code works….

gobjExcelReportSheet.Application.Selection.Autofilter()

But there is no option for sorting programmetically.

Please help me…

Thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming you’re using the interop assemblies this is how I do it:

Dim myWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet = myWorkbook.Worksheets(aSheetName) myWorkSheet.Activate() Dim myRange As Excel.Range  myRange = myWorkSheet.Range('A1', 'L10') myRange.Select()   myRange.Sort(Key1:=myRange.Range('D1'), _                         Order1:=Excel.XlSortOrder.xlAscending, _                         Orientation:=Excel.XlSortOrientation.xlSortColumns) 

Basically you need to select a range (in this case A1:L10, then choose to sort it by a certain column (D).