Programatically export report to PDF - windows platform

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Hi Guys

I am using microsoft report viewer on windows environment with *.rdlc reporting file.

I have a requirement to programatically export the report (invoice) into PDF and save it under a folder for later use (going to email the invoices).

The reporting part is fine and all working but However, I am unable to find a way to export the report programatically....done google without much luck.

any help would be highly appreicated as am slightly running out of time.

Posted 27-Dec-12 5:24am

Bala Selvanayagam

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Bala Selvanayagam 14-Feb-14 7:03am

Thanks & I did not know

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Solution 1

Google is your friend: http://forums.asp.net/t/1556522.aspx/1[^]

Posted 27-Dec-12 5:39am

Adam R Harris

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Bala Selvanayagam 27-Dec-12 11:42am

Looks this is for web based and am looking for windows.

I have already tried this without much sucess

Adam R Harris 27-Dec-12 11:53am

wow, could have done without the attitude. I am taking time out of my day to try and assist you, grateful is the only emotion you should attempt to convey. You did not mention that this was a windows application in your question so i had to take my best guess.

byte[] buffer;
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("[Desired File Path]", System.IO.FileMode.Append){
buffer = ReportViewer.ServerReport.Render("pdf", null, null, null, null, null, null);
fs.write(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
fs.close();
}

Bala Selvanayagam 27-Dec-12 12:28pm

Thanks Adam,

Apologies, if i have upset you in any means. I was struggling on this for last 4-5 hours without luck and hence my comment would have been short.

I have tried your suggestion and the method ServerReport.Render() does not accept null as the out put paramters,

would be thankful, if you could dig into for me

Adam R Harris 27-Dec-12 12:41pm

Take a look at the example on here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252214(v=vs.80).aspx

Bala Selvanayagam 27-Dec-12 14:46pm

Thanks, was not straight forward for the window based environment.

I have switched to crystal report which is relatively easier to export taking the time constraint into account - this resolves the issue for the time being

Adam R Harris 27-Dec-12 15:58pm

Warning[] warnings;
string[] streamids;
string mimeType;
string encoding;
string extension;
string deviceInfo;
byte[] buffer;
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("[Desired File Path]", System.IO.FileMode.Append){
buffer = ReportViewer.ServerReport.Render("pdf", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamids, out warnings);
fs.write(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
fs.close();
}

Solution 2

See these..
http://forums.asp.net/t/1422717.aspx/1[^]
http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/reporting/designing-reports/exporting-a-report-to-pdf-programmatically.aspx[^]

Posted 27-Dec-12 8:59am

ridoy

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Bala Selvanayagam 27-Dec-12 15:29pm

Thanks ridoy and will have a look

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-27T16:28:00

Solution 3

For writing of PDF, you can use iText, more exactly, its .NET port called iTextSharp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IText[^],
http://itextpdf.com/[^],
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/[^].

I provided links to iText, too, because nearly all documentation you need to work with iTextSharp is there, provided as Java documentation.

—SA

Posted 27-Dec-12 16:28pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Bala Selvanayagam 28-Dec-12 3:54am

Thanks - SA

very much useful, thanks again

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-12 4:24am

You are welcome. If so, please accept the answer formally (green button) — thanks.
—SA

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