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Comment: Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin
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{introducedin: 8.6.1}{description}
{excerpt}Sets an IEnumerable<T> as a data source to bind to template data markers.{excerpt}
{signature:C#}
 public void BindData(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T> dataSource, System.String dataSourceName, DataBindingProperties property)
{signature}{signature:vb.net}
Public Sub BindData(ByVal dataSource As System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of T), ByVal dataSourceName As String, ByVal [property] As DataBindingProperties)
{signature}
{parameters}
{param:dataSource}The IEnumerable<T> collection to use as the data source.{param}
{param:dataSourceName}The name of the set of data markers at which to insert the values imported from the data source. {{dataSourceName}} must be specified, but can be left as null or an empty string if this is the first data source bound AND the data markers in the template use the [short data marker syntax|http://wiki.softartisans.com/display/EW8/Creating+Data+Markers#CreatingDataMarkers-short] or refer to the datasource by number rather than name. Note: {{dataSourceName}} does not include a data marker's column name, for example, the {{dataSourceName}} for {{%%=Products.ProductID}} is "Products."{param}
{param:property}The [DataBindingProperties|DataBindingProperties] object which contains information about how the data should be bound to the template.  {{property}} Must be specified, but the {{DataBindingProperties}} need not be set beforehand.  To bind data to a template with the default {{DataBindingProperties}}, pass in {{ExcelTemplate.CreateDataBindingProperties()}} as the {{property}} value.  Otherwise, use the {{ExcelTemplate.CreateDataBindingProperties()}} method to generate a new {{DataBindingProperties}} object and set the [DataBindingProperties.MaxRows|DataBindingProperties.MaxRows], [DataBindingProperties.Transpose|DataBindingProperties.Transpose], and/or [DataBindingProperties.WorksheetName|DataBindingProperties.WorksheetName] properties for the workbook.{param}
{exceptions}
{exception:ArgumentNullException}{{BindData}} will throw this exception if {{null}} \(C\#\) or {{Nothing}} \(VB.NET\) is passed to the method.{exception}
{exception:SARuntimeException}{{BindData}} will throw this exception if the data source contains more rows than the worksheet can hold.
 If there is more than one data marker referring to a data source and the data source is forward only, the exception will be thrown only if the source is larger than all bindings can hold.

{exception}
{remarks}You can set several data sources for a single template. Use the following methods to set template data sources: [BindCellData|ExcelTemplate.BindCellData(Object, String, DataBindingProperties)], [BindColumnData|ExcelTemplate.BindColumnData], [BindRowData|ExcelTemplate.BindRowData], and [BindData|ExcelTemplate.BindData].

{remarks}
{example}{code:csharp|title=C#}

          ExcelTemplate xlt = new ExcelTemplate();

          interface IOrder
          {
               int OrderID;
               string Customer;
               DateTime OrderDate;
               float OrdersTotal;
          }


          IEnumerable<IOrder> orders = GetOrders();
          xlt.BindData(orders, "Orders", xlt.CreateDataImportProperties());
        {code}
{code:vb.net|title=vb.net}

          Dim xlt As New ExcelTemplate()
          Interface IOrder
               Property OrderID() as Int32
               Property Customer() as String
               Property OrderDate() as DateTime
               Property OrdersTotal() as Single
          End Interface

          Dim orders as IEnumerable(Of Order) = GetOrders()
          xlt.BindData(orders, "Orders", xlt.CreateDataImportProperties())
        {code}

{example}