Aspose.Words for .NET. Fill document table from external database using C#.

build-table-from-data-table.cs

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
Document doc = new Document();
// We can position where we want the table to be inserted and specify any extra formatting to the table.
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// We want to rotate the page landscape as we expect a wide table.
doc.FirstSection.PageSetup.Orientation = Orientation.Landscape;

DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(MyDir + "List of people.xml");
// Retrieve the data from our data source, which is stored as a DataTable.
DataTable dataTable = ds.Tables[0];

// Build a table in the document from the data contained in the DataTable.
Table table = ImportTableFromDataTable(builder, dataTable, true);

// We can apply a table style as a very quick way to apply formatting to the entire table.
table.StyleIdentifier = StyleIdentifier.MediumList2Accent1;
table.StyleOptions = TableStyleOptions.FirstRow | TableStyleOptions.RowBands | TableStyleOptions.LastColumn;

// For our table, we want to remove the heading for the image column.
table.FirstRow.LastCell.RemoveAllChildren();

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "WorkingWithTables.BuildTableFromDataTable.docx");

import-table-from-data-table.cs

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET.git.
/// <summary>
/// Imports the content from the specified DataTable into a new Aspose.Words Table object.
/// The table is inserted at the document builder's current position and using the current builder's formatting if any is defined.
/// </summary>
public Table ImportTableFromDataTable(DocumentBuilder builder, DataTable dataTable,
    bool importColumnHeadings)
{
    Table table = builder.StartTable();

    // Check if the columns' names from the data source are to be included in a header row.
    if (importColumnHeadings)
    {
        // Store the original values of these properties before changing them.
        bool boldValue = builder.Font.Bold;
        ParagraphAlignment paragraphAlignmentValue = builder.ParagraphFormat.Alignment;

        // Format the heading row with the appropriate properties.
        builder.Font.Bold = true;
        builder.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Center;

        // Create a new row and insert the name of each column into the first row of the table.
        foreach (DataColumn column in dataTable.Columns)
        {
            builder.InsertCell();
            builder.Writeln(column.ColumnName);
        }

        builder.EndRow();

        // Restore the original formatting.
        builder.Font.Bold = boldValue;
        builder.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = paragraphAlignmentValue;
    }

    foreach (DataRow dataRow in dataTable.Rows)
    {
        foreach (object item in dataRow.ItemArray)
        {
            // Insert a new cell for each object.
            builder.InsertCell();

            switch (item.GetType().Name)
            {
                case "DateTime":
                    // Define a custom format for dates and times.
                    DateTime dateTime = (DateTime) item;
                    builder.Write(dateTime.ToString("MMMM d, yyyy"));
                    break;
                default:
                    // By default any other item will be inserted as text.
                    builder.Write(item.ToString());
                    break;
            }
        }

        // After we insert all the data from the current record, we can end the table row.
        builder.EndRow();
    }

    // We have finished inserting all the data from the DataTable, we can end the table.
    builder.EndTable();

    return table;
}