How to import data from Excel file and bind it for .NET MVC Grid?

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In Certain cases, users may like to read data from excel worksheet and bind it as dataSource for the ASP.NET MVC Grid control. We can achieve this requirement using the Syncfusion.XlsIO namespace.

Solution:

Render the Grid control, by binding DataTable as dataSource using ViewBag.data

    @(Html.EJ().Grid<object>("Grid")
      .Datasource((System.Data.DataTable)ViewBag.data)
              .Columns(col =>
               {
                   col.Field("ID").Width(20).Add();
                   col.Field("Name").Width(20).Add();
                   col.Field("DateOfBirth").Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy}").Width(20).Add();
                   col.Field("Address").Width(50).Add();
                   col.Field("MobileNumber").Width(50).Add();
 
               })       
    )

In the Controller, we can load and open an existing excel workbook using the Open method of IWorkbook class. We can export the sheet data to data table using the ExportDataTable method of the IWorkSheet and store the returned DataTable object to the ViewBag.data

public ActionResult Index()
        {
            ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine();
 
            //Loads or open an existing workbook through Open method of IWorkbooks
 
            IWorkbook workbook = excelEngine.Excel.Workbooks.Open(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory+"/DataSample.xls");
            IWorksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
 
            // Read data from the worksheet and Export to the DataTable.
 
            DataTable table = worksheet.ExportDataTable(worksheet.UsedRange, ExcelExportDataTableOptions.ColumnNames);
            ViewBag.data = table;
            return View();
        }

Conclusion

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