how to directly get pdf from reportviewer ?

Question

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?

Manoj Bhoir · Answer

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 Kumar · Answer

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

Subin Thomas · Answer

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