How to render ReportViewer rdlc report as PDF January 5, 2012 Today, I found some really useful code that can render a really boring ReportViewer rdlc file in a report as a PDF file with not many lines of code, here’s how: –. So now, I can hide the reportviewer and just have the button click events generate my PDF's. I do not know how to tweak this code to enable me to print directly from another button's click event without the reportviewer being visible. One way would be to convert the server RDL file into a local RDLC file that can be processed by the report viewer control alone. You could then do as many others here and create a hidden control in your service that exports the report to PDF. How to export rdlc report to PDF without using ReportViewer. Rate this: Please Sign up or sign in to vote. See more: C#. Bytes = viewer.LocalReport.Render(' PDF', null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension. Creating Pdf without report viewer in rdlc. You can render to PDF by calling ReportViewer.LocalReport.Render() and specifying 'PDF' for the format. Then this byte stream can be used any way you want in your application. Thursday, February 9, 2006 1:37 AM.
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That is a complete stand alone function that both creates and then sends it to the client for downloading. The last line 'Response.Flush();' actually sends the PDF that was just created in the buffer on the server straight to the client in the form of a download. So basically all you would do is something like this...
Create a fancy reports page to display the user, and then create a standard asp button that says something like 'Get Report'. When they click it, have it fire a click event like so:
protected void YourButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CreatePDF(YourMeaningfulFileNameHere);
}
{
CreatePDF(YourMeaningfulFileNameHere);
}
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Really thats all there is too it. It will create the report, then send it to the user as a download all by itself. Easy right?
As a more detailed explanation, When you finally get the array of bytes, that is the Report itself in Raw format. After that you start all the 'Response' stuff. That is created a buffer that then writes the binary data into an actually file hence the Response.BinaryWrite() method. After its finished writing the array of bytes into an actual file, it is completed finished and is ready to be sent to the client for download. Thats where Response.Flush() comes in. It sends it to the client via HTTP.