I have to create a Console application that exports a DataSet
to Excel. The problem is that it shouldn't pop up the save window, it should automatically create the Excel file. So far I have the following code, but I don't know how to make it save automatically. Would appreciate any help.
public static void CreateWorkbook(DataSet ds, String path)
{
int rowindex = 0;
int columnindex = 0;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application wapp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet wsheet;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook wbook;
wapp.Visible = false;
wbook = wapp.Workbooks.Add(true);
wsheet = (Worksheet)wbook.ActiveSheet;
try
{
for (int i = 0; i < ds.Tables[0].Columns.Count; i++)
{
wsheet.Cells[1, i + 1] = ds.Tables[0].Columns[i].ColumnName;
}
foreach (DataRow row in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
{
rowindex++;
columnindex = 0;
foreach (DataColumn col in ds.Tables[0].Columns)
{
columnindex++;
wsheet.Cells[rowindex + 1, columnindex] = row[col.ColumnName];
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
String err = ex.Message;
}
wapp.UserControl = true;
}
All of the arguments to WorkBook.SaveAs()
are optional, but you can just use Type.Missing
for most of them if you want to.
The typical call would look like:
wbook.SaveAs("c:\\temp\\blah", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat.xlWorkbookDefault, Type.Missing, Type.Missing,
false, false, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlSaveAsAccessMode.xlNoChange,
Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);
wbook.Close();
Note that I didn't include the file extension; Excel will set that for you.
Workbook.SaveAs Method (Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel) | Microsoft Docs describes each of the arguments.