Generating reports using custom data (html table) not dataset

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I read several articles on this site and many others recommending report generating tools of various kinds but all use dataset as there datasource.

This is not my requirement!

I need some way to export the data which is displayed in the htmltable on mypage.aspx.

user clicks view record
a pdf opens (it should contain the data of the html table which is made dynamically)

I want to generate a pdf on the fly using a htmltable as a source of data and displaying it a a pdf doc in the browser but not having to save the result to the webserver.

No, and no need to write in uppercase as this is considered rude. — Darin Dimitrov, Aug 28 '10 at 17:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '10 at 15:36

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You may take a look at iTextSharp and here's a tutorial on how to get started. There's also a section in the documentation which illustrates how to create tables in PDF documents.

answered Aug 28 '10 at 15:36

Darin Dimitrov

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any way to use a general method, builtin method ? – user287745 Aug 28 '10 at 16:20
Builtin what? The .NET framework does not contain any native way to work with PDF files. – Darin Dimitrov Aug 28 '10 at 16:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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Check out this thread regarding abcPDF. What you are describing is very similar to what I have used their library for. When I was originally testing out various methods, I had tried iTextSharp but found for the very minimal cost, abcPDF did everything that I required (sepcifically HTML to PDF generation) with minimal lines of code.

Generation PDF from HTML (component for .NET)

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answered Aug 28 '10 at 15:42

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Generating reports using custom data (html table) not dataset

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