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How To Export List View Items To Excel

This document provides steps to export list view items from a Visual Basic application to Excel. It begins with a brief description of Excel. It then outlines 3 steps: 1) Create a new Visual Basic project with a list view and export button. 2) Add code to the form load event to populate the list view. 3) Add code to the export button click event to export the list view items to a new Excel workbook, making the data visible. The code uses objects to create an Excel application instance, workbook, and worksheet, then loops through the list view items and subitems to write the data to cells.

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How To Export List View Items To Excel

This document provides steps to export list view items from a Visual Basic application to Excel. It begins with a brief description of Excel. It then outlines 3 steps: 1) Create a new Visual Basic project with a list view and export button. 2) Add code to the form load event to populate the list view. 3) Add code to the export button click event to export the list view items to a new Excel workbook, making the data visible. The code uses objects to create an Excel application instance, workbook, and worksheet, then loops through the list view items and subitems to write the data to cells.

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How to Export List View Items to Excel

Before I will discuss our topic on how to export list view items to excel, I will first share a short
description of what is an Excel.

Excel is a spreadsheet application included in the Microsoft Office Suite of applications. It's made up of
rows and columns that can be manipulated to perform various features like calculation, graphing tools,
pivot tables and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for applications. It is a useful
powerful tool where most people working in offices rely on. They use this application to answer statistical,
engineering and financial needs.

Now, In this tutorial I will share you how to include a command to export list view items to excel in your
Visual Basic project. Adding this feature in your application can help users to easily move the data in your
application to excel.

Follow these few steps on how to export list view items to excel.

Step 1. Create a new Visual Basic project and name it export_excel_app. Grab a list view and a button
from your toolbox (View > Toolbox). Add at least 3 columns in your list view and change the text of your
button to Export to Excel. You may do the same UI as you can see below.
Step 2. Go to your form code by double clicking your form in your Design tab and go to form_load event.

Paste this code inside form_load event to load items in your list view.

'load items
Dim lst As ListViewItem
lst = lstview.Items.Add("101")
lst.SubItems.Add("John")
lst.SubItems.Add("Male")
lst = lstview.Items.Add("102")
lst.SubItems.Add("Marry")
lst.SubItems.Add("Female")
lst = lstview.Items.Add("103")
lst.SubItems.Add("Peter")
lst.SubItems.Add("Male")
lst = lstview.Items.Add("104")
lst.SubItems.Add("Sarah")
lst.SubItems.Add("Female")
lst = lstview.Items.Add("105")
lst.SubItems.Add("Magdalene")

lst.SubItems.Add("Female")

Step 2. Go to your Export to Excel button class name and select Click event from the declaration.

Paste this code inside your export to excel button under click event.

Try
Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor
Dim ExcelApp As Object, ExcelBook As Object
Dim ExcelSheet As Object
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
'create object of excel
ExcelApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
ExcelBook = ExcelApp.WorkBooks.Add
ExcelSheet = ExcelBook.WorkSheets(1)
With ExcelSheet
For i = 1 To Me.lstview.Items.Count
.cells(i, 1) = Me.lstview.Items(i - 1).Text
For j = 1 To lstview.Columns.Count - 1
.cells(i, j + 1) = Me.lstview.Items(i -
1).SubItems(j).Text
Next
Next
End With
ExcelApp.Visible = True
ExcelSheet = Nothing
ExcelBook = Nothing
ExcelApp = Nothing
Me.Cursor = Cursors.Default
Catch ex As Exception
Me.Cursor = Cursors.Default
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Message", MessageBoxButtons.OK,
MessageBoxIcon.Information)
End Try

Step 3. Now hit F5 to run and test your program. See sample exported data below.

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