How to export to Excel?

Question

I followed this guide , which was recommended in another post, but I can't get it to work. I get 404 error when trying to redirect to / LogModelsController / ExportData, which, as I understood it, was what I should have done.

_LogPartialLayout.cshtml

@using (Html.BeginForm("ExportData", "LogModelsController", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
    <table class="table">
        <tr>
            <th>
                @Html.ActionLink("message", "Index", new { sortOrder = ViewBag.NameSortParm, currentFilter = ViewBag.CurrentFilter })

            </th>
            <th>
                @Html.ActionLink("timestamp", "Index", new { sortOrder = ViewBag.NameSortParm, currentFilter = ViewBag.CurrentFilter })
            </th>
            <th>
                @Html.ActionLink("level", "Index", new { sortOrder = ViewBag.NameSortParm, currentFilter = ViewBag.CurrentFilter })
            </th>

        </tr>

        @foreach (var item in Model)
        {
            <tr>
                <td>
                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.message)
                </td>
                <td>
                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.timeStamp)
                </td>
                <td>
                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.level)
                </td>
            </tr>
        }
    </table>
    <input type="submit" name="Export" id="Export" value="Export" />
}

LogModelsController.cs

public ActionResult ExportData()
        {
            GridView gv = new GridView();
            gv.DataSource = db.Log.ToList();
            gv.DataBind();
            Response.ClearContent();
            Response.Buffer = true;
            Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=Loglist.xls");
            Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel";
            Response.Charset = "";
            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
            HtmlTextWriter htw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
            gv.RenderControl(htw);
            Response.Output.Write(sw.ToString());
            Response.Flush();
            Response.End();

            return RedirectToAction("~/LogModels/Index");
        }

LogModel.cs

namespace ASDMVC.Models
{
    [Table("Log")]
    public class LogModel
    {
        [Key]
        public long id { get; set; }
        public string message { get; set; }
        public DateTime timeStamp { get; set; }
        public string level { get; set; }
        public int customerId { get; set; }
    }

    public class LogDBContext:DbContext
    {
        public LogDBContext() : base("MySqlConnection")
        {

        }

        public DbSet <LogModel> Log { get; set; }

    }
}

TD DR: How to export this table in Excel?

Bonus: Does it also work with PagedList?

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Change 3 - SOLVE

Index.cshtml:

@using (Html.BeginForm("ExportData", "LogModels"))
{
    <input type="submit" name="Export" id="Export" value="Export" />
}

LogModelsController.cs

public ActionResult ExportData()
{
    DataTable dataTable = GetData();

    using (ExcelPackage package = new ExcelPackage())
    {
        var ws = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("My Sheet");
        //true generates headers
        ws.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(dataTable, true);

        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        package.SaveAs(stream);

        string fileName = "myfilename.xlsx";
        string contentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";

        stream.Position = 0;
        return File(stream, contentType, fileName);
    }
}

public DataTable GetData()
{
    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MySqlConnection"].ConnectionString))
        {
            using (SqlCommand comm = conn.CreateCommand())
            {
                comm.Parameters.AddWithValue("@val1", Session["myID"]);
                comm.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM dbo.Log WHERE CustomerId = @val1";
                try
                {
                    conn.Open();
                    dt.Load(comm.ExecuteReader());
                }
                catch (SqlException e)
                {
                    throw new Exception(e.ToString());
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return dt;
}

I made a mistake in CommandText and set "Id" instead of "CustomerId" - now it returns the entire table in the Excel file.

Answer 1

, Excel, , HTML . Excel csv HTML , , .

Excel, , EPPlus. , , , , Excel xlsx.

EPPlus LoadFromDataTable LoadFromCollection Excel , DataTable . .

public ActionResult ExportData()
{

    //Somehow, load data to a DataTable

    using (ExcelPackage package = new ExcelPackage())
    {
        var ws = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("My Sheet");
        //true generates headers
        ws.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(dataTable, true);

        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        package.SaveAs(stream);

        string fileName = "myfilename.xlsx";
        string contentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";

        stream.Position = 0;
        return File(stream, contentType, fileName);
    }
}

LoadFromDataTable LoadFromCollection Excel, :

var range=ws.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(table);
range.Style.Numberformat.Format = "#,##0.00";
range.Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.Right;

LoadFromDataTable LoadFromCollection, :

ws.Cells[1,1].LoadFromDataTable(table, true, TableStyles.Light1);

Githup Wiki , , , , ..

MemoryStream , . , MemoryStream, , . MVC - . , FileResult, EPPlus, FileResult, File, :

public class EpplusResult:FileResult
{
    public EpplusResult(ExcelPackage package)
        : base("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet")
    {
        if (package == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("package");
        }

        Package = package;
    }

    public ExcelPackage Package { get; private set; }

    protected override void WriteFile(HttpResponseBase response)
    {
        // grab chunks of data and write to the output stream
        Stream outputStream = response.OutputStream;
        using (Package)
        {
            Package.SaveAs(outputStream);
        }
    }
}

:

public FileResult ExportData()
{

    ExcelPackage package = new ExcelPackage();
    var ws = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("My Sheet");       
    ...
    ws.Cells[1,1].LoadFromDataTable(table, true, TableStyles.Light1);

    return new EpplusResult(package){FileDownloadName = "SomeFile.xlsx"};
}

Answer 2

HTML excel, .

, epplus.

public ActionResult ExportData()
{

    using (ExcelPackage package = new ExcelPackage())
    {
        var ws = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("LogMessages");
       //Headers
        ws.Cells["A1"].Value = "Message";
        ws.Cells["B1"].Value = "TimeStamp";
        ws.Cells["C1"].Value = "Level";


       var rowNumber=1;

        foreach (var log in DbContext.Log)
       {
           ws.Cells[rowNumber, 1].Value = vehicle.message;
           ws.Cells[rowNumber, 2].Value = vehicle.timeStamp;
           ws.Cells[rowNumber, 3].Value = vehicle.level;
           rowNumber++;
       }


        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        package.SaveAs(stream);

        string fileName = "logMessags.xlsx";
        string contentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";

        stream.Position = 0;
        return File(stream, contentType, fileName);
    }
}

Panagiotis Kanavos

Answer 3

. ExcelResult, Excel , Excel(), Json().

https://github.com/iabdelkareem/MVC-Excel-Extensions