Export Gridview to Xml

In this blog we will know how to export the Grid view data and save it to xml.

 

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

    <title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

   

    </div>

    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">

    </asp:GridView>

    <asp:Button ID="btnsave" runat="server" onclick="btnsave_Click"

        Text="Save to Xml" />

    </form>

</body>

</html>

 

 

using System;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    string connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;

    SqlCommand com;

    SqlDataAdapter sqlda;

    DataSet ds;

    string str;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        if (!IsPostBack)

        {

            BindGrid();

        }

    }

    protected void BindGrid()

    {

        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connStr);

        con.Open();

        str = "select * from employee";

        com = new SqlCommand(str, con);

        sqlda = new SqlDataAdapter(com);

        con.Close();

        ds = new DataSet();

        sqlda.Fill(ds, "employee");

        GridView1.DataSource = ds;

        GridView1.DataMember = "employee";

        GridView1.DataBind();

    }

    protected void btnsave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        BindGrid();

        ds.WriteXml("d:\\employee.xml");

        Response.Write("Records saved as xml");

    }

}