Creating HTML from a DataTable using C#

Question

I need to be able to pass HTML data into Outlook like this:

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.Body = myBody;

Initially, I th

Answer 1

Loop over your DataTable, and build up the html string. IE:

DataTable dt = new DataTable();

dt.Columns.Add("col1");
dt.Columns.Add("col2");
dt.Columns.Add("col3");
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { "a", "b", "c" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { "d", "e", "f" });

string tab = "\t";

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.AppendLine("");
sb.AppendLine(tab + "");
sb.AppendLine(tab + tab + "");

// headers.
sb.Append(tab + tab + tab + "");

foreach (DataColumn dc in dt.Columns)
{        
    sb.AppendFormat("", dc.ColumnName);        
}

sb.AppendLine("");

// data rows
foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
{
    sb.Append(tab + tab + tab + "");

    foreach (DataColumn dc in dt.Columns)
    {
        string cellValue = dr[dc] != null ? dr[dc].ToString() : "";
        sb.AppendFormat("", cellValue);
    }

    sb.AppendLine("");
}

sb.AppendLine(tab + tab + "
{0}
{0}
");
sb.AppendLine(tab + "");
sb.AppendLine("");