How to speed up dumping a DataTable into an Excel worksheet?

Question

I have the following routine that dumps a DataTable into an Excel worksheet.

    private void RenderDataTableOnXlSheet(DataTable dt, Excel.Worksheet xlWk,          


        

Answer 1

I agree with Charles. Interop is really slow. But try this:

private void RenderDataTableOnXlSheet(DataTable dt, Excel.Worksheet xlWk, 
                                    string [] columnNames, string [] fieldNames)
{
    // render the column names (e.g. headers)
    int columnLength = columnNames.Length;
    for (int i = 0; i < columnLength; i++)
        xlWk.Cells[1, i + 1] = columnNames[i];

    // render the data 
        int fieldLength = fieldNames.Length;
        int rowCount = dt.Rows.Count;
        for (int j = 0; j < rowCount; j++)
        { 
            for (int i = 0; i < fieldLength; i++)
            {
                xlWk.Cells[j + 2, i + 1] = dt.Rows[j][fieldNames[i]].ToString();
            }
        }
}

HTH