How to create advert in MVC asp.net?

Question

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

Laxmidhar Sahoo · Answer

hi C# code is same in mvc as well as asp.net.just calling method is different.use post method in mvc

Guest User · Answer

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 Sahoo · Answer

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 User · Answer

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 Sahoo · Answer

public ActionResult DownloadHighChartHtml() { string serverPath = Server.MapPath( "~/phantomjs/" ); string filename = DateTime.Now.ToString( "ddMMyyyy_hhmmss" ) + ".pdf" ; string Url = "http://wwwabc.com" ; new Thread( new ParameterizedThreadStart(x => { ExecuteCommand( string .Format( "cd {0} & E: & phantomjs rasterize.js {1} {2} \"A4\"" , serverPath, Url, filename)); //E: is the drive for server.mappath })).Start(); var filePath = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath( "~/phantomjs/" ), filename); var stream = new MemoryStream(); byte [] bytes = DoWhile(filePath); Response.ContentType = "application/pdf" ; Response.AddHeader( "content-disposition" , "attachment;filename=Image.pdf" ); Response.OutputStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length); Response.End(); return RedirectToAction( "HighChart" ); } private void ExecuteCommand( string Command) { try { ProcessStartInfo ProcessInfo; Process Process; ProcessInfo = new ProcessStartInfo( "cmd.exe" , "/K " + Command); ProcessInfo.CreateNoWindow = true ; ProcessInfo.UseShellExecute = false ; Process = Process.Start(ProcessInfo); } catch { } } private byte [] DoWhile( string filePath) { byte [] bytes = new byte [0]; bool fail = true ; while (fail) { try { using (FileStream file = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { bytes = new byte [file.Length]; file.Read(bytes, 0, ( int )file.Length); } fail = false ; } catch { Thread.Sleep(1000); } } System.IO.File.Delete(filePath); return bytes; } Another liltelbit easy for using itextsharp library using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using iTextSharp.tool.xml; byte [] pdf; // result will be here var cssText = File.ReadAllText(MapPath( "~/css/test.css" )); var html = File.ReadAllText(MapPath( "~/css/test.html" )); using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) { var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 60, 60); var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, memoryStream); document.Open(); using (var cssMemoryStream = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(cssText))) { using (var htmlMemoryStream = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(html))) { XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, document, htmlMemoryStream, cssMemoryStream); } } document.Close(); pdf = memoryStream.ToArray(); } for more reference https: //stackoverflow.com/questions/564650/convert-html-to-pdf-in-net