how to export asp.net MVC detail view data to an excel file?

Question

How to export ASP.NET MVC view data to an excel file ? Actually my view page contain many viewdata types. I am using for each loop with these datatype to displaying data on

Answer 1

Depending on the complexity of the page's HTML you might be able to get away with just changing the header type to application/excel. Excel has built in html parsing functionality. I've successfully done this many times a few years back with a DataGrid on a page.

Response.ContentType = "application/excel"
Response.AppendHeader "content-disposition", "attachment: filename=TestExcelFile.xls"

Some details on HTML in excel