How to download excelsheet with header as bold in MVC

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hi all my requirement is like download an excel sheet with header when i click on button

so its working but header is not in bold so i want to change header any body can suggest me where to change in my code below is my code

this  is my controller
public void ExportClientsListToCSV()
{

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

sw.WriteLine("\"User Name\",\"In Time\",\"Out Time\",\"Client Info\",\"User Role\",\"Activity\"");

Response.ClearContent(); 
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=User_Track.csv");
Response.ContentType = "text/csv";
var abc = TempData["test"];
IEnumerable<PAN_LOGINTRK> test = abc as IEnumerable<PAN_LOGINTRK>;
//object test = (abc);

foreach (var line in test)
{
var role = "";
if (line.userrole == 1)
{
role = "CSAdmin";
}
else if (line.userrole == 2)
{
role = "Buyer";
}
else if (line.userrole == 3)
{
role = "Supervisor";
}
else if (line.userrole == 4)
{
role = "OrgAdmin";
}
sw.WriteLine(string.Format("\"{0}\",\"{1}\",\"{2}\",\"{3}\",\"{4}\",\"{5}\"",
line.username,
line.Intime,
line.Outtime,
"Client IP: "+line.ClientIP+" Client XIP: "+line.ClientXIP+" Client Agent: "+line.ClinetAgent,
role,
line.Activity));
}

Response.Write(sw.ToString());

Response.End();

}

in view i have written like

function Export() {

var ExportAction = '@Url.RouteUrl("Default", new RouteValueDictionary(new { action = "ExportClientsListToCSV", controller = "UserTrack" }), "http", ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ContextPath"])'
location.href = ExportAction;
}

What I have tried:

this  is my controller
public void ExportClientsListToCSV()
{

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

sw.WriteLine("\"User Name\",\"In Time\",\"Out Time\",\"Client Info\",\"User Role\",\"Activity\"");

Response.ClearContent(); 
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=User_Track.csv");
Response.ContentType = "text/csv";
var abc = TempData["test"];
IEnumerable<PAN_LOGINTRK> test = abc as IEnumerable<PAN_LOGINTRK>;
//object test = (abc);

foreach (var line in test)
{
var role = "";
if (line.userrole == 1)
{
role = "CSAdmin";
}
else if (line.userrole == 2)
{
role = "Buyer";
}
else if (line.userrole == 3)
{
role = "Supervisor";
}
else if (line.userrole == 4)
{
role = "OrgAdmin";
}
sw.WriteLine(string.Format("\"{0}\",\"{1}\",\"{2}\",\"{3}\",\"{4}\",\"{5}\"",
line.username,
line.Intime,
line.Outtime,
"Client IP: "+line.ClientIP+" Client XIP: "+line.ClientXIP+" Client Agent: "+line.ClinetAgent,
role,
line.Activity));
}

Response.Write(sw.ToString());

Response.End();

}

in view i have written like

function Export() {

var ExportAction = '@Url.RouteUrl("Default", new RouteValueDictionary(new { action = "ExportClientsListToCSV", controller = "UserTrack" }), "http", ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ContextPath"])'
location.href = ExportAction;
}

Posted 28-Apr-17 5:24am

raviram123

Updated 28-Apr-17 9:04am

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CHill60 28-Apr-17 11:27am

You are outputting to a CSV file. You cannot have cell attributes in a CSV file.

[no name] 28-Apr-17 11:29am

CSV files are plain text files. You can't have text formatting in a text file.

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2017-04-28T09:04:00

As said in the comments CSV files are plain text, you can't add decorations or formatting. You could try writing the data as an html table instead and make the headers bold via html. When Excel interprets the table as a datasheet it may well take on the bold formatting also. Google how to export a table to Excel, it's pretty much the same thing you already have only sending an html table and different content types.