Send query results to Excel from ASP.NET website

Question

We let users create ad-hoc queries in our website. We would like to have the user select their criteria, then click submit and have the results streamed automatically to Ex

Answer 1

I got a utils function that does this already. Once you put it into a datatable, you can export it with the Response using

        public static void DataTabletoXLS(DataTable DT, string fileName)
    {
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "utf-16";
        HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename={0}.xls", fileName));
        HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel";

        string tab = "";
        foreach (DataColumn dc in DT.Columns)
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(tab + dc.ColumnName.Replace("\n", "").Replace("\t", ""));
            tab = "\t";
        }
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Write("\n");

        int i;
        foreach (DataRow dr in DT.Rows)
        {
            tab = "";
            for (i = 0; i < DT.Columns.Count; i++)
            {
                HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(tab + dr[i].ToString().Replace("\n", "").Replace("\t", ""));
                tab = "\t";
            }
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Write("\n");
        }
        HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
               }