Read Excel Sheet Data and Bind With ASP.NET GridView

Sourabh Somani
Dec 08, 2014
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Introduction

This article explains how to retrieve data from Excel using ADO.NET then store it into a dataset stored as DataSets data to be shown in a GridView.

I am showing you it step-by-step:

Step 1: Open Visual Studio and create a new ASP.NET project and create a webform.

Step 2: Now on that webform use one FileUploadControl. Using this we will upload an Excel file from our system. Create one button to upload the data to the server, one label to show you what file's data is showing in the grid view, and use one GridView control in which we will show our Excel sheet's data.

So my design aspx page is like; this you can just copy and paste the aspx page given below:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ImportExelDataInGridView.aspx.cs" Inherits="ReadDataFromExcel.ImportExelDataInGridView" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
Import Excel File:
<asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" />
<br />
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnUpload" runat="server" OnClick="btnUpload_Click" Text="Upload" />
<br />
<br />
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"></asp:Label>
<br />
<asp:GridView ID="gvExcelFile" runat="server" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#284775" />
<EditRowStyle BackColor="#999999" />
<FooterStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#284775" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<RowStyle BackColor="#F7F6F3" ForeColor="#333333" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#E2DED6" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
<SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#E9E7E2" />
<SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#506C8C" />
<SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#FFFDF8" />
<SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#6F8DAE" />
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Using the code above you will get output of the page such as the following:

Step 3: Now on the code behind of this aspx page, use the following two namespaces:

System.Data;

System.Data.OleDb;

Step 4: For the click event of the upload button you should write the following code:

protected void btnUpload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Coneection String by default empty
string ConStr = "";
//Extantion of the file upload control saving into ext because
//there are two types of extation .xls and .xlsx of Excel
string ext = Path.GetExtension(FileUpload1.FileName).ToLower();
//getting the path of the file
string path = Server.MapPath("~/MyFolder/"+FileUpload1.FileName);
//saving the file inside the MyFolder of the server
FileUpload1.SaveAs(path);
Label1.Text = FileUpload1.FileName + "\'s Data showing into the GridView";
//checking that extantion is .xls or .xlsx
if (ext.Trim() == ".xls")
{
//connection string for that file which extantion is .xls
ConStr = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + path + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=2\"";
}
else if (ext.Trim() == ".xlsx")
{
//connection string for that file which extantion is .xlsx
ConStr = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + path + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 12.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=2\"";
}
//making query
string query = "SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]";
//Providing connection
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(ConStr);
//checking that connection state is closed or not if closed the
//open the connection
if (conn.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
{
conn.Open();
}
//create command object
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(query, conn);
// create a data adapter and get the data into dataadapter
OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(cmd);
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
//fill the Excel data to data set
da.Fill(ds);
//set data source of the grid view
gvExcelFile.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];
//binding the gridview
gvExcelFile.DataBind();
//close the connection
conn.Close();
}