Posted 2 December 2020, 8:46 am EST
Hey there,
Using the template function in .net Core 3.1 code.
We created a class with a Date Field and a List of string values. This DataSet merged successfully.
We then tried to dynamically create the same using a key-value pair list by using the Expando class. But this failed, so we trimmed it back to just one item the Date Field.
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FileDate {{ds.FileDate}}
Using the immediate window in VS we can see the FileDate
expando.FileDate
{1/01/2020 3:21:00 PM}
Date: {1/01/2020 12:00:00 AM}
Day: 1
DayOfWeek: Wednesday
DayOfYear: 1
Hour: 15
Kind: Unspecified
Millisecond: 0
Minute: 21
Month: 1
Second: 0
Ticks: 637134888600000000
TimeOfDay: {15:21:00}
Year: 2020
The exception raised is
System.ArgumentException: 'Can’t find field or property ‘FileDate’ of type 'System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair`2
The test method is
[TestMethod]
public void Generate_SampleData_SavesExcelFile()
{
var templateFileLocation = @“C:\samplefiles\input.xltx”;
var outboundFileLocation = @“C:\samplefiles\gen”;
// Create a Key/Value pair for all fields and the Grid
dynamic expando = new ExpandoObject();
IDictionary<string, object> expandoDic = (IDictionary<string, object>)expando;
// Fields
expandoDic.Add(“FileDate”, new DateTime(2020, 1, 1, 15, 21, 00));
// Excel
Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
workbook.Open(templateFileLocation);
//Add data source
workbook.AddDataSource(“ds”, expando);
//Invoke to process the template
workbook.ProcessTemplate();
workbook.Save(@$“{outboundFileLocation}\file_{DateTime.Now:yyyy_MM_dd_HHmmss}.xlsx”);
}
Is there something wrong in the above code, or this method is not supported?
Thanks,
Damian.
