How to export gridview to excel without exporting gridview controls

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When i export my gridview to excel, certain controls gets exported when i try to do so (i.e.Button and Checkbox), how can i remove/hide those controls from appearing in my excel sheet?

Here is the code that i am using to export my Gridview to excel.
Response.Clear(); Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Untitled.xls"); Response.Charset = ""; // If you want the option to open the Excel file without saving then // comment out the line below // Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xls"; System.IO.StringWriter stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter(); System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter); worklistGridView.RenderControl(htmlWriter); Response.Write(stringWriter.ToString()); Response.End();

Posted 16-Mar-11 19:19pm

Nischal Bhatt

Updated 16-Mar-11 19:56pm

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Prerak Patel 17-Mar-11 1:20am

How do you export?

Raj.rcr 17-Mar-11 1:32am

could u plz post ur code? so that some one can try to rectify this issue.

Nischal Bhatt 17-Mar-11 1:46am

here is the code that i am using to export my gridview to excel.
Response.Clear();
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Untitled.xls");
Response.Charset = "";
// If you want the option to open the Excel file without saving then
// comment out the line below
// Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xls";
System.IO.StringWriter stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
worklistGridView.RenderControl(htmlWriter);
Response.Write(stringWriter.ToString());
Response.End();

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Solution 1

you can use open source library called iTextSharp. With this you can export your gridview data.

Posted 16-Mar-11 19:28pm

Phaneendra Varanasi

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Nischal Bhatt · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-20T09:59:00

Solution 2

This is what i found, it's considered as the best practice while exporting a GridView to Excel and it works like a charm.
have a look at the link...
http://www.koders.com/csharp/fid8E1506538F1D8C8626B4EDA7F7D6163DACF2C3C4.aspx?s=gridview#L15[^]

Posted 20-Mar-11 9:59am

Nischal Bhatt

Updated 20-Mar-11 10:00am

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