I am having an issue when passing some data to an Excel spreadsheet, using OOX. Thing is, everything works great, except the dates, which are shown in a numeric value instead of the datetime format. Here's my code:
private object ProcessXLSFile(PayeesWorkingHoursFullDataDTO payeesWorkingHoursFullDataDTO)
{
DataTable dt = Functions.ObjectToDataTable(payeesWorkingHoursFullDataDTO.ListWorkingHours);
ExcelPackage pck = new ExcelPackage();
//Create the worksheet
ExcelWorksheet ws = pck.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("WorkSheet1");
//Load the datatable into the sheet, starting from cell A1. Print the column names on row 1
ws.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(dt, true);
string _range = "G2:G" + (dt.Rows.Count + 1).ToString();
using (ExcelRange col = ws.Cells[_range])
{
col.Style.Numberformat.Format = "#,##0.00";
col.Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.Right;
}
_range = "J2:J" + (dt.Rows.Count + 1).ToString();
using (ExcelRange col = ws.Cells[_range])
{
col.Style.Numberformat.Format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
col.Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.Center;
}
_range = "T2:T" + (dt.Rows.Count + 1).ToString();
using (ExcelRange col = ws.Cells[_range])
{
col.Style.Numberformat.Format = "dd-MM-yyyy";
col.Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.Center;
}
//Write it back to the client
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=Payee-Grid.xlsx");
Response.BinaryWrite(pck.GetAsByteArray());
Response.End();
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
These lines are the ones where the columns should be converted to datetime:
_range = "J2:J" + (dt.Rows.Count + 1).ToString();
using (ExcelRange col = ws.Cells[_range])
{
col.Style.Numberformat.Format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
col.Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.Center;
}
But that's definitely not working.
This is the code where I create the DataTable:
public static DataTable ObjectToDataTable<T>(this IList<T> data)
{
PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T));
DataTable table = new DataTable();
foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
table.Columns.Add(prop.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType) ?? prop.PropertyType);
foreach (T item in data)
{
DataRow row = table.NewRow();
foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item) ?? DBNull.Value;
table.Rows.Add(row);
}
return table;
}
Debugging the columns I have been able to see that, up to the lines where I format the columns to "dd-MM-yyyy", the date information is still in datetime format. I have tried everything, but I really don't seem to be able to get this to work properly. Do you guys have any idea on how to make it work?