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Useful export helper class

Below is a helper class that I use for exporting a DataGrids contents to an external file. The below code references gridViewText, but I haven't tested it out on a GridView yet as the code is from an application I'm working on upgrading. But, it works like a charm on the DataGrid.

public sealed class ExportHelper
{
    public static void ExportToCsv( string gridViewText, string contentType, HttpResponse response)
    {
        const string m_Delimiter_Column = "," ;
        string m_Delimiter_Row = Environment .NewLine;

        response.ContentType = contentType;

        Regex m_RegEx = new Regex (@ "(>\s+<)" , RegexOptions .IgnoreCase);
        gridViewText = m_RegEx.Replace(gridViewText, "><" );

        gridViewText = gridViewText.Replace(m_Delimiter_Row, String .Empty);
        gridViewText = gridViewText.Replace( "" , m_Delimiter_Row);
        gridViewText = gridViewText.Replace( " " , String .Empty);
        gridViewText = gridViewText.Replace(m_Delimiter_Column, "\\" + m_Delimiter_Column);
        gridViewText = gridViewText.Replace( " " , m_Delimiter_Column);

        m_RegEx = new Regex (@ "<[^>]*>" , RegexOptions .IgnoreCase);
        gridViewText = m_RegEx.Replace(gridViewText, String .Empty);

        gridViewText = HttpUtility .HtmlDecode(gridViewText);
        response.Write(gridViewText);
        response.End();
    }

    public static void ExportToExcelWord( string gridViewText, string contentType, HttpResponse response)
    {
        response.ContentType = contentType;
        response.Write(gridViewText);
        response.End();
    }
}

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Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:18 AMby Ryan Olshan
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