IMailMergeDataSourceTableName Property

string TableName { get; }

ReadOnly Property TableName As String
	Get

property String^ TableName {
	String^ get ();
}

abstract TableName : string with get

public void CustomDataSource()
{
    // Create a destination document for the mail merge
    Document doc = new Document();
    DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
    builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD FullName ");
    builder.InsertParagraph();
    builder.InsertField(" MERGEFIELD Address ");

    // Create some data that we will use in the mail merge
    CustomerList customers = new CustomerList();
    customers.Add(new Customer("Thomas Hardy", "120 Hanover Sq., London"));
    customers.Add(new Customer("Paolo Accorti", "Via Monte Bianco 34, Torino"));

    // To be able to mail merge from your own data source, it must be wrapped
    // into an object that implements the IMailMergeDataSource interface
    CustomerMailMergeDataSource customersDataSource = new CustomerMailMergeDataSource(customers);

    // Now you can pass your data source into Aspose.Words
    doc.MailMerge.Execute(customersDataSource);

    doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "MailMergeCustom.CustomDataSource.doc");
}

/// <summary>
/// An example of a "data entity" class in your application.
/// </summary>
public class Customer
{
    public Customer(string aFullName, string anAddress)
    {
        FullName = aFullName;
        Address = anAddress;
    }

    public string FullName { get; set; }
    public string Address { get; set; }
}

/// <summary>
/// An example of a typed collection that contains your "data" objects.
/// </summary>
public class CustomerList : ArrayList
{
    public new Customer this[int index]
    {
        get { return (Customer) base[index]; }
        set { base[index] = value; }
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// A custom mail merge data source that you implement to allow Aspose.Words 
/// to mail merge data from your Customer objects into Microsoft Word documents.
/// </summary>
public class CustomerMailMergeDataSource : IMailMergeDataSource
{
    public CustomerMailMergeDataSource(CustomerList customers)
    {
        mCustomers = customers;

        // When the data source is initialized, it must be positioned before the first record.
        mRecordIndex = -1;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The name of the data source. Used by Aspose.Words only when executing mail merge with repeatable regions.
    /// </summary>
    public string TableName
    {
        get { return "Customer"; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Aspose.Words calls this method to get a value for every data field.
    /// </summary>
    public bool GetValue(string fieldName, out object fieldValue)
    {
        switch (fieldName)
        {
            case "FullName":
                fieldValue = mCustomers[mRecordIndex].FullName;
                return true;
            case "Address":
                fieldValue = mCustomers[mRecordIndex].Address;
                return true;
            default:
                // A field with this name was not found, 
                // return false to the Aspose.Words mail merge engine.
                fieldValue = null;
                return false;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// A standard implementation for moving to a next record in a collection.
    /// </summary>
    public bool MoveNext()
    {
        if (!IsEof)
            mRecordIndex++;

        return (!IsEof);
    }

    public IMailMergeDataSource GetChildDataSource(string tableName)
    {
        return null;
    }

    private bool IsEof
    {
        get { return (mRecordIndex >= mCustomers.Count); }
    }

    private readonly CustomerList mCustomers;
    private int mRecordIndex;
}