Creating gridview inside WCF service

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Hi ,

Can I have grid-view in my web-service so that I render it on some values and create Gridview then finally send it as mail attachment in HTML format.

So basically can I place a gridview in my webservice like I do in aspx page.

note: I need not to show gridview as its a service I only want to send that format as HTML file as an attachment in mail ( I HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS IN AN ASPX PAGE IN ASP.NET)

Thanks,
Abhishek Singh.

Posted 1-May-14 23:43pm

abhishek.singh.valeteck

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thatraja 2-May-14 6:45am

That's really a bad idea. Why?

abhishek.singh.valeteck 2-May-14 7:58am

I want my grids on reports to be rendered in same way after some calculations as I did in web app so that I can send it as attachment later on.
I can attach code to support my view

thatraja 2-May-14 9:31am

Include the code in your question

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DamithSL · Answer 1 · 2014-05-01T23:57:00

not sure that you can render control programmatically inside wcf service or not. What you can do is create HTML based on your data like below.

assume you have datatable then

C#

public static string ConvertDataTableToHTML(DataTable dt)
{
    string html = "<table>";
    //add header row
    html += "<tr>";
    for(int i=0;i<dt.columns.count;i++)>
        html+="<td>"+dt.Columns[i].ColumnName+"</td>";
    html += "</tr>";
    //add rows
    for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
    {
        html += "<tr>";
        for (int j = 0; j< dt.Columns.Count; j++)
            html += "<td>" + dt.Rows[i][j].ToString() + "</td>";
        html += "</tr>";
    }
    html += "</table>";
    return html;
}

As per This question answers[^]
you can try by turning on ASP.NET compatibility mode in your WCF configuration.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2014-05-02T19:47:00

Solution 2

Crate a GridView dynamically and return it as appropriate.
For e.g.

C#

Dim mygrid As New GridView
mygrid.DataSource = New Integer() {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
mygrid.DataBind()

Posted 2-May-14 19:47pm

Abhinav S

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