ASP.NET MVC 5 - AngularJS, Create PDF File Using Microsoft Report

Introduction

This article walks you through the steps of creating a report in Word or PDF format using Microsoft Report, without using Report Viewer.

STEP 1 - Create ASP.NET Web Application

Check the link below, to see all the steps of creating a Web API wtih Entity Framework code-first implementation.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26795.asp-net-webapi-entity-framework-code-first.aspx

STEP 2 - Install Microsoft Report Viewer Runtime into Machine

To have the ability to create reports into your project, you need to install the Runtime of Microsoft Report Viewer.

Follow the link below and download it according to your Visual Studio version:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35747

STEP 3 - Create Report

Add new item to your project of type Report.

For that, select Reporting option on the left menu and then select Report item as shown in the image below.

Let's call it "Contacts.rdlc".

Create new datasource associated with your connection string defined in web.config.

Select "Next" button.

In this demo, we will use table "Contacts" defined in our database.

Rename the dataset to DataSetContacts, and press the OK option.

After the creation of dataset, we need to design our report. For that, create a table with three columns, as in the image below.

This will display the Name, Address, and City of each contact that exists in the database table.

STEP 4 - PDF Generate Class

Create new Controller called ReportControllers and have the GetPDFreport method:

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