Column headers in CSV using fileHelpers library?

Question

Is there a built-in field attribute in the FileHelper library which will add a header row in the final generated CSV?

I have Googled and didn\'t find much info on it

Answer 1

Just to include a more complete example, which would have saved me some time, for version 3.4.1 of the FileHelpers NuGet package....

Given

[DelimitedRecord(",")]
public class Person
{
   [FieldCaption("First")]
   public string FirstName { get; set; }

   [FieldCaption("Last")]
   public string LastName { get; set; }

   public int Age { get; set; }
}

and this code to create it

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var people = new List();
    people.Add(new Person() { FirstName = "James", LastName = "Bond", Age = 38 });
    people.Add(new Person() { FirstName = "George", LastName = "Washington", Age = 43 });
    people.Add(new Person() { FirstName = "Robert", LastName = "Redford", Age = 28 });

    CreatePeopleFile(people);
}

private static void CreatePeopleFile(List people)
{
    var engine = new FileHelperEngine();

    using (var fs = File.Create(@"c:\temp\people.csv"))
    using (var sw = new StreamWriter(fs))
    {
        engine.HeaderText = engine.GetFileHeader();
        engine.WriteStream(sw, people);
        sw.Flush();
    }
}

You get this

First,Last,Age
James,Bond,38
George,Washington,43
Robert,Redford,28