Rendering a control

 The following code renders gridview control as text.

Add namespaces

using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Web.UI;

and the code is

public string RenderGridView()

{

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);

 HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);

 myGridView.RenderControl(hw);

 return sb.ToString();

}