C# DataGridView Export to Excel

The DataGridView control is designed to be a complete solution for displaying tabular data with Windows Forms. The DataGridView control is highly configurable and extensible, and it provides many properties, methods, and events to customize its appearance and behavior. The following C# source code shows how to Export the content of a datagridview to an Excel file.

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using System;

using System.Data;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;



namespace WindowsFormsApplication1

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }


        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            string connectionString = "Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=pubs;Integrated Security=True";

            string sql = "SELECT * FROM Authors";

            SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);

            SqlDataAdapter dataadapter = new SqlDataAdapter(sql, connection);

            DataSet ds = new DataSet();

            connection.Open();

            dataadapter.Fill(ds, "Authors_table");

            connection.Close();

            dataGridView1.DataSource = ds;

            dataGridView1.DataMember = "Authors_table";

        }


        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            Excel.Application xlApp;

            Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;

            Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;

            object misValue = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;



            Int16 i, j;



            xlApp = new Excel.ApplicationClass();

            xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add(misValue);



            xlWorkSheet = (Excel.Worksheet)xlWorkBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);



            for (i = 0; i <= dataGridView1.RowCount - 2; i++)

            {

                for (j = 0; j <= dataGridView1.ColumnCount - 1; j++)

                {

                    xlWorkSheet.Cells[i + 1, j + 1] = dataGridView1[j, i].Value.ToString();

                }

            }


            xlWorkBook.SaveAs(@"c:\csharp.net-informations.xls", Excel.XlFileFormat.xlWorkbookNormal, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, Excel.XlSaveAsAccessMode.xlExclusive, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue);

            xlWorkBook.Close(true, misValue, misValue);

            xlApp.Quit();


            releaseObject(xlWorkSheet);

            releaseObject(xlWorkBook);

            releaseObject(xlApp);

        }


        private void releaseObject(object obj)

        {

            try

            {

                System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);

                obj = null;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                obj = null;

                MessageBox.Show("Exception Occured while releasing object " + ex.ToString());

            }

            finally

            {

                GC.Collect();

            }

        }

    }

}