Best and easiest way to export all the data from a datatable to an excel to get it downloaded using C#? - datatable

Question

Using C#, which is the best and easiest way to export all the data from a datatable to an excel to get it downloaded?

Answer 1

I use Microsoft Interop.
Here is some sample code to get you started.
There are probably hundreds of tutorials which are better than the below. I have removed much of the code I use so I doubt the following will compile, but with careful reading, and some investigation into tutorials, you should be able to accomplish what you need.
public static void ExportToExcel(DataSet dsTodo, string strPathToSaveFile)
{
try
{
int numSteps = (dsTodo != null ? dsTodo.Tables.Count * 2 : 1);
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass ExcelApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass();
Workbook xlWorkbook = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Add(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlWBATemplate.xlWBATWorksheet);
if (dsTodo.Tables.Count > 0)
{
for (int i = dsTodo.Tables.Count; i > 0; i--)
{
Sheets xlSheets = null;
Worksheet xlWorksheet = null;
//Create Excel Sheets
xlSheets = ExcelApp.Sheets;
xlWorksheet = (Worksheet)xlSheets.Add(xlSheets[1], Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);
System.Data.DataTable table = dsTodo.Tables[i - 1];
xlWorksheet.Name = table.TableName;
for (int j = 1; j < table.Columns.Count + 1; j++)
{
ExcelApp.Cells[1, j] = table.Columns[j - 1].ColumnName;
}
var excelData = new object[table.Rows.Count, table.Columns.Count];
for (int rowJ = 0; rowJ < table.Rows.Count; rowJ++)
{
for (int colI = 0; colI < table.Columns.Count; colI++)
{
excelData[rowJ, colI] = table.Rows[rowJ][colI];
}
}
int startCol = 1;
int endCol = startCol + table.Columns.Count - 1;
int startRow = 2;
int endRow = startRow + table.Rows.Count - 1;
string startLoc = GetCellFromCoords(startCol, startRow);
string endLoc = GetCellFromCoords(endCol, endRow);
//ExcelApp.get_Range(startLoc, endLoc).Value2 = excelData;
try
{
Range valRange = ExcelApp.get_Range(startLoc, endLoc);
valRange.Value2 = excelData;
}