how to directly get pdf from reportviewer ?

Subin Thomas

7y6.5k.NET

i have a reportviewer on gridview i have given a buttonfield and wrote code of reportviewer

when i click on button it shows reportviewer panel and then we can choose downloading pdf/excel file format on that control, but i want the when button is clicked instead of reprort viewer panel i want pdf to be downloaded directly ,

can this be done if yes, how to?

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Subin Thomas7y ago
hey jignesh i checked the link given by you and it had same code provided by manoj i checked the code but havent got some things in it
Manoj Bhoir7y ago
Hi,

You can try this code.
private void CreatePDF(string fileName)
{
    // Variables
    Warning[] warnings;
    string[] streamIds;
    string mimeType = string.Empty;
    string encoding = string.Empty;
    string extension = string.Empty;


    // Setup the report viewer object and get the array of bytes
    ReportViewer viewer = new ReportViewer();
    viewer.ProcessingMode = ProcessingMode.Local;
    viewer.LocalReport.ReportPath = "YourReportHere.rdlc";

    byte[] bytes = viewer.LocalReport.Render("PDF", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamIds, out warnings);

    // Now that you have all the bytes representing the PDF report, buffer it and send it to the client.
    Response.Buffer = true;
    Response.Clear();
    Response.ContentType = mimeType;
    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName + "." + extension);
    Response.BinaryWrite(bytes); // create the file
    Response.Flush(); // send it to the client to download
}
Jignesh Kumar7y ago
Hi Subin,

Please try blow link,

https://forums.asp.net/t/1556522.aspx?RDLC+Export+directly+to+Excel+or+PDF+from+codebehind

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2684221/creating-a-pdf-from-a-rdlc-report-in-the-background