Dynamically added cells disappear while exporting to Excel

Question

I have a gridview. I have created two columns dynamically in the Row_DataBound event of the gridview.

 if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        TableCell cell1 = new TableCell();
        cell1.Width = 100;
        e.Row.Cells.Add(cell1);

        TableCell cell2 = new TableCell();
        cell2.Width = 100;
        e.Row.Cells.Add(cell2);
    }
    else
    {
        TableCell cell1 = new TableCell();
        cell1.Width = 100;
        cell1.Text = "<span style='font-weight:bold'>Total Punches";
        e.Row.Cells.Add(cell1);

        TableCell cell2 = new TableCell();
        cell2.Width = 110;
        cell2.Text = "<span style='font-weight:bold'>Hours Worked";
        e.Row.Cells.Add(cell2);
    }

I want to export the whole grid to Excel sheet. When I click the Export button, the last two columns which I created on Row_DataBound disappear in the excel sheet.

Can anyone help me solving this.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Try to move the logic to RowCreated event.