[Solved] Save grid to PDF and don't display dialog box

[Mark Hinchliffe]

Hi,

I've got the following code that I am running server-side to export the grid and save it to PDF. I then don't want to show the Dialog box to the user so I can then do more in code to attach the saved PDF to an email.

This is the code I have to save the file:

protected void grdDailyList_GridExporting(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridExportingArgs e)
        {
            string path = Server.MapPath("~/DailyList/list.pdf");
            if (File.Exists(path))
                File.Delete(path);

            using (FileStream fs = File.Create(path))
            {
                Byte[] info = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(e.ExportOutput);
                fs.Write(info, 0, info.Length);
            }


        }

How do I then prevent the dialog box from getting displayed?

Or can I move the above code to get the grids ExportOutput code without having to go through this method?

Thanks, Mark

[Daniel]

Hello Mark,

The only way to avoid the dialog at this point is to refresh the page as demonstrated in this blog post:
Export grid to PDF file and show the result using the window

As to the second question - this is the earliest point where you can get the output.

Kind regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team