ReportViewer - Hide PDF Export

Question

I make use of a ReportView component in a VB.Net 2005 app. How can I disable the PDF export functionality, only keeping the MS Excel format?

Answer 1

Inspired by the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/9192978/1099519 I created two extension methods.

In my case I use a whitelist approach by only enabling the formats I want (So you would need to include those you want except PDF):

reportViewer.ServerReport.SetExportFormats("EXCELOPENXML", "EXCEL", "XML", "CSV");

The Extension Methods look like this (supporting both Server- and LocalReports):

/// 

/// Extension for ReportViewer Control
/// 
public static class ReportViewerExtensions
{
    private const string VisibleFieldName = "m_isVisible";
    /// 

    /// Sets the supported formats on the 
    /// 
    ///  instance to set formats on
    /// Supported formats
    public static void SetExportFormats(this ServerReport serverReport, params string[] formatNames)
    {
        SetExportFormats(serverReport.ListRenderingExtensions(), formatNames);
    }
    /// 

    /// Sets the supported formats on the 
    /// 
    ///  instance to set formats on 
    /// Supported formats
    public static void SetExportFormats(this LocalReport localReport, params string[] formatNames)
    {
        SetExportFormats(localReport.ListRenderingExtensions(), formatNames);
    }

    /// 

    /// Setting the visibility on the 
    /// 
    /// List of 
    /// A list of Formats that should be visible (Case Sensitive)
    private static void SetExportFormats(RenderingExtension[] renderingExtensions, string[] formatNames)
    {
        FieldInfo fieldInfo;
        foreach (RenderingExtension extension in renderingExtensions)
        {
            if (!formatNames.Contains(extension.Name))
            {
                fieldInfo = extension.GetType().GetField(VisibleFieldName, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
                fieldInfo.SetValue(extension, false);
            }

        }
    }
}