HTML document to PDF?

Question

I\'ve got an ASP.NET web page that is a dynamically generated report. For business reasons, this exact report needs to be produced as a PDF. What\'s the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Have you looked at SQL Server Reporting Services? If you are using MSSQL 2005/2008 then you probably already have reporting services and you just need to configure it. You can host your reports there and in just a few lines of code get the report as a PDF file.

    //create the web request for the report based on a URL that will define export 
    //format, parameter values, etc.
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(reportUrl);
    //send creditials if necessary
    request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password);
    //response will contain the PDF file as a stream
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

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