I Love Microsoft: August 2012

Problem: User has got two sets of data sources. One is a table in Sql Server and other one is an excel sheet. So, we have 3 gridview controls in our web page. First grid shows the data from Database table and second one shows the data from Excel sheet and third one should show the difference of data between two grid views.

Solution:

Create a table in SQL server as below:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[UserData](

[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

[Name] [varchar](50) NULL,

[Password] [varchar](50) NULL,

CONSTRAINT [PK_UserData] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED

(

[ID] ASC

)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]

) ON [PRIMARY]

Enter data in the above table. I have entered the following data in the table:

ID	Name	Password
1	abc	123
2	xyz	321
3	NNN	789
4	PPP	8998

Here is the stored procedure to get the data from the table:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetUserData]

select Name,Password from userdata;

Now create an excel sheet document. It has two columns same as in the table above. One is “Name” and other one “password”.

Name	Password
abc	123
xyz	321
asas	856
jklo	854

Since, we need to compare two different sets of data, we need to make sure that the column names are same so that we can compare them using the features available in C# for .NET 3.5.

Now let us build the UI for displaying the data from two data sources and also the difference between the two data sets. My ASPX file looks like below:

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

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

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<div>

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="lblDataDisplay">Display Data From Database</asp:Label>

<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="DisplayDBData"> </asp:GridView>

</div>

<br/>

<div>

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="lblExcelDisplay">Display Data From Excel</asp:Label>

<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="DisplayExcelData"></asp:GridView>

</div>

<br/>

<div>

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="Label1">Display Data Difference Between Database and Excel</asp:Label>

<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="DisplayDifferenceData"></asp:GridView>

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

My Code behind file looks like below:

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic;

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.Data;

using System.Data.Sql;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

using System.Data.OleDb;

namespace GridBind

{

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

{

/// <summary>

/// Page Load method

/// </summary>

/// <param name="sender"></param>

/// <param name="e"></param>

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//Get data from UserData Table from DB

var ds = GetUserData();

//Assign the data to the first gridview

DisplayDBData.DataSource = ds;

DisplayDBData.DataBind();

DataSet dataSet;

//Get data from Excel data source and bind it to second gridview

var oleDbConnection = GetDataFromExcel(out dataSet);

DisplayExcelData.DataSource = dataSet.Tables[0];

DisplayExcelData.DataBind();

oleDbConnection.Close();

//Find the difference of data and bind the data to third gridview

var dtAll = GetDataDifference(ds, dataSet);

DisplayDifferenceData.DataSource = dtAll;

DisplayDifferenceData.DataBind();

}

/// <summary>

/// Gets data difference between two data sets

/// </summary>

/// <param name="ds"></param>

/// <param name="dataSet"></param>

/// <returns>DataTable value</returns>

private static DataTable GetDataDifference(DataSet ds, DataSet dataSet)

{

//Query first dataset

IEnumerable<DataRow> query1 = from userData in ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable()

select userData;

//Query second dataset

IEnumerable<DataRow> query2 = from userData in dataSet.Tables[0].AsEnumerable()

select userData;

//Create data tables and get the data from above queries

DataTable userData1 = query1.CopyToDataTable();

DataTable userData2 = query2.CopyToDataTable();

//Now use Except operator to find the data in first set and not in second

var userDataFirstSet = userData1.AsEnumerable().Except(userData2.AsEnumerable(),

DataRowComparer.Default);

//Find data in second and not in first

var userDataSecondSet = userData2.AsEnumerable().Except(userData1.AsEnumerable(),

DataRowComparer.Default);

//Create a new data table and add new columns

DataTable dtAll = new DataTable();

dtAll.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Name", typeof (string)));

dtAll.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Password", typeof (string)));

//Bind the data from both user data sets and add it to the datatable

foreach (var dataRow in userDataFirstSet)

{

DataRow dr = dtAll.NewRow();

dr[0] = dataRow[0];

dr[1] = dataRow[1];

dtAll.Rows.Add(dr);

}

foreach (var dataRow in userDataSecondSet)

{

DataRow dr = dtAll.NewRow();

dr[0] = dataRow[0];

dr[1] = dataRow[1];

dtAll.Rows.Add(dr);

}

return dtAll;

}

/// <summary>

/// Method to get data from excel document

/// </summary>

/// <param name="dataSet"></param>

/// <returns></returns>

private static OleDbConnection GetDataFromExcel(out DataSet dataSet)

{

OleDbConnection oleDbConnection;

//Since I am using excel 2007, I have to specify the OLEDB connector for 2007

OleDbDataAdapter oleDbDataAdapter;

oleDbConnection =

new OleDbConnection(

@"provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source='c: \UserData.xlsx';Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;");

oleDbDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select rtrim(ltrim(name)) as [Name],rtrim(ltrim(password)) as [Password] from [Sheet1$]", oleDbConnection);

oleDbDataAdapter.TableMappings.Add("Table", "ExcelTable");

dataSet = new DataSet();

oleDbDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet);

return oleDbConnection;

}

/// <summary>

/// Method to get data from database

/// </summary>

/// <returns></returns>

private static DataSet GetUserData()

{

SqlConnection sqlConnection = new SqlConnection();

sqlConnection.ConnectionString =

"Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=MyTestDB;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=userid;Password=password;Pooling=False";

SqlCommand sqlCommand = new SqlCommand();

sqlCommand.Connection = sqlConnection;

sqlCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

sqlCommand.CommandText = "GetUserData";

sqlConnection.Open();

SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(sqlCommand);

DataSet ds = new DataSet();

adapter.Fill(ds);

return ds;

}

Now let us run our code and see the output:

Display Data From Database

Name	Password
abc	123
xyz	321
NNN	789
PPP	8998

Display Data From Excel

Name	Password
abc	123
xyz	321
asas	856
jklo	854

Display Data Difference Between Database and Excel

Name	Password
NNN	789
PPP	8998
asas	856
jklo	854

You can extend or change the program with more efficient code. This article was written by keeping in mind the first time programmers.

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