Grant
Grant

Reputation:

Export C# reportviewer control programmatically

Does anyone know if you can programmatically save a report shown in a reportviewer control in C#?

When a report is shown there are "Export to..." buttons and I would like to automate the saving to PDF function.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 40411

Answers (3)

A K
A K

Reputation: 1

You can't export to an event as far as reportviewer in web forms are concerned.

Upvotes: -1

NETY
NETY

Reputation: 41

string _sPathFilePDF = String.Empty;
String v_mimetype;
String v_encoding;
String v_filename_extension;
String[] v_streamids;
Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Warning[] warnings;
string _sSuggestedName = String.Empty;

Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer reportViewer1;
Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.LocalReport objRDLC = new Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.LocalReport();
reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource = "reportViewer1.rdlc";
reportViewer1.LocalReport.DisplayName  = _sSuggestedName;

objRDLC.DataSources.Clear();
byte[] byteViewer = rptvFlightPlan.LocalReport.Render("PDF", null, out v_mimetype, out v_encoding, out v_filename_extension, out v_streamids, out warnings);

SaveFileDialog saveFileDialog1 = new SaveFileDialog();

saveFileDialog1.Filter = "*PDF files (*.pdf)|*.pdf";
saveFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 2;
saveFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = true;
saveFileDialog1.FileName = _sSuggestedName;
if (saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        FileStream newFile = new FileStream(saveFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Create);
        newFile.Write(byteViewer, 0, byteViewer.Length);
        newFile.Close();
    }

Upvotes: 4

Mike Chaliy
Mike Chaliy

Reputation: 26698

You can do this with ReportViewer Control(with LocalReport.Render Method), check "Email a report" example at the http://www.gotreportviewer.com/

Upvotes: 9

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