Export to PDF

[razvandragoi]

Hi
I have to make a web aplication in VB .Net. I'm populating a GridView with records from a database. I have to generate a PDF file with one page for every row in the GridView. (for ex. if the GridView has 3 rows of records, I have to generate a PDF file with 3 pages and each page contains the values from a row in the gridview).
Do you know how it needs to be done?

Thank you.

 

[ss7thirty]

To make PDFs you will need some third party controls to do this. I do not think that .NET has a way to create PDF images. I could be wrong though.

 

[Arg81]

Yep you would need 3rd party software to be able to do this, and it'll be a case of "printing" to the PDF printer which would then create the files.

I think by default you can only export as a csv, doc, xls and html file....however I may be wrong

 

[razvandragoi]

I found something about exporting to PDF using iTextSharp. They say you can export from C# and VB .Net but I didn't find any doc about how to use in VB .Net. Do you know something about it?

 

[Arg81]

Not me, never used it, but here's their tutorial : http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

I use ComponentOne components. Their grid allows me to export as a PDF document, which comes in handy
http://www.componentone.com