How to create advert in MVC asp.net?

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Hi mates

Does any mate ever worked on advert using asp.net mvc? To create advert using any file format like pdf or word. If there are some examples please do share them on asp.net

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Laxmidhar Sahoo6y ago
hi
C# code is same in mvc as well as asp.net.just calling method is different.use post method in mvc
Guest User6y ago
Is this a console application? I want to follow the structure of MVC if you can comprehend my argument, nothing wrong with this logic. I just need flow, hope make sense.
Laxmidhar Sahoo6y ago
hi
For your case I think It is better to use itextsharp library .Belloe is the example
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;


    Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
    var output = new FileStream(Server.MapPath("MyFirstPDF.pdf"), FileMode.Create);
    var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, output);


    doc.Open();


    var logo = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/ABsIS_Logo.jpg"));
    logo.SetAbsolutePosition(430, 770);
    logo.ScaleAbsoluteHeight(30);
    logo.ScaleAbsoluteWidth(70);
    doc.Add(logo);

    PdfPTable table1 = new PdfPTable(2);
    table1.DefaultCell.Border = 0;
    table1.WidthPercentage = 80;

    var titleFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 24);
    var subTitleFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 16);

    PdfPCell cell11 = new PdfPCell();
    cell11.Colspan = 1;
    cell11.AddElement(new Paragraph("ABC Traders Receipt", titleFont));

    cell11.AddElement(new Paragraph("Thankyou for shoping at ABC traders,your order details are below", subTitleFont));


    cell11.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

    PdfPCell cell12 = new PdfPCell();


    cell12.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;


    table1.AddCell(cell11);

    table1.AddCell(cell12);


    PdfPTable table2 = new PdfPTable(3);

    //One row added

    PdfPCell cell21 = new PdfPCell();

    cell21.AddElement(new Paragraph("Photo Type"));

    PdfPCell cell22 = new PdfPCell();

    cell22.AddElement(new Paragraph("No. of Copies"));

    PdfPCell cell23 = new PdfPCell();

    cell23.AddElement(new Paragraph("Amount"));


    table2.AddCell(cell21);

    table2.AddCell(cell22);

    table2.AddCell(cell23);


    //New Row Added

    PdfPCell cell31 = new PdfPCell();

    cell31.AddElement(new Paragraph("Safe"));

    cell31.FixedHeight = 300.0f;

    PdfPCell cell32 = new PdfPCell();

    cell32.AddElement(new Paragraph("2"));

    cell32.FixedHeight = 300.0f;

    PdfPCell cell33 = new PdfPCell();

    cell33.AddElement(new Paragraph("20.00 * " + "2" + " = " + (20 * Convert.ToInt32("2")) + ".00"));

    cell33.FixedHeight = 300.0f;



    table2.AddCell(cell31);

    table2.AddCell(cell32);

    table2.AddCell(cell33);


    PdfPCell cell2A = new PdfPCell(table2);

    cell2A.Colspan = 2;

    table1.AddCell(cell2A);

    PdfPCell cell41 = new PdfPCell();

    cell41.AddElement(new Paragraph("Name : " + "ABC"));

    cell41.AddElement(new Paragraph("Advance : " + "advance"));

    cell41.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

    PdfPCell cell42 = new PdfPCell();

    cell42.AddElement(new Paragraph("Customer ID : " + "011"));

    cell42.AddElement(new Paragraph("Balance : " + "3993"));

    cell42.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;


    table1.AddCell(cell41);

    table1.AddCell(cell42);


    doc.Add(table1);

    doc.Close();
Guest User6y ago
Hi Sahoo

Ok i see now, which means i will need to have a controller, model and view as well. Anything from the sql server side like a table column? I am thinking things like crud operation if the file is downloaed using pdf from the advert, then it wont exist. Whats your experience on this mate?
Laxmidhar Sahoo6y ago
1. public ActionResult DownloadHighChartHtml()
2. {
3. string serverPath = Server.MapPath("~/phantomjs/");
4. string filename = DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMyyyy_hhmmss") + ".pdf";
5. string Url = "http://wwwabc.com";
7. new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(x =>
8. {
9. ExecuteCommand(string.Format("cd {0} & E: & phantomjs rasterize.js {1} {2} \"A4\"", serverPath, Url, filename));
10. //E: is the drive for server.mappath
11. })).Start();
13. var filePath = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/phantomjs/"), filename);
15. var stream = new MemoryStream();
16. byte[] bytes = DoWhile(filePath);
18. Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
19. Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Image.pdf");
20. Response.OutputStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
21. Response.End();
22. return RedirectToAction("HighChart");
23. }
27. private void ExecuteCommand(string Command)
28. {
29. try
30. {
31. ProcessStartInfo ProcessInfo;
32. Process Process;
34. ProcessInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/K " + Command);
36. ProcessInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
37. ProcessInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
39. Process = Process.Start(ProcessInfo);
40. }
41. catch { }
42. }
45. private byte[] DoWhile(string filePath)
46. {
47. byte[] bytes = new byte[0];
48. bool fail = true;
50. while (fail)
51. {
52. try
53. {
54. using (FileStream file = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
55. {
56. bytes = new byte[file.Length];
57. file.Read(bytes, 0, (int)file.Length);
58. }
60. fail = false;
61. }
62. catch
63. {
64. Thread.Sleep(1000);
65. }
66. }
68. System.IO.File.Delete(filePath);
69. return bytes;
70. }
73. Another liltelbit easy for using itextsharp library
75. using iTextSharp.text;
76. using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
77. using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
80. byte[] pdf; // result will be here
82. var cssText = File.ReadAllText(MapPath("~/css/test.css"));
83. var html = File.ReadAllText(MapPath("~/css/test.html"));
85. using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
86. {
87. var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 60, 60);
88. var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, memoryStream);
89. document.Open();
91. using (var cssMemoryStream = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(cssText)))
92. {
93. using (var htmlMemoryStream = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(html)))
94. {
95. XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, document, htmlMemoryStream, cssMemoryStream);
96. }
97. }
99. document.Close();
101. pdf = memoryStream.ToArray();
102. }
103. for more reference
105. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/564650/convert-html-to-pdf-in-net