Saving a report into PDF format programmatically

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Telerik Reporting v.6.x

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Trayko, Telerik

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August 24, 2012

Last modified by

Steve, Telerik


HOW-TO
Save a report into PDF format programmatically

SOLUTION
To save a report in PDF you have to use FileStream and write the bytes of the rendered report in it. Here is an example: 

C#

void SaveReport(Telerik.Reporting.Report report, string fileName)
    {
        ReportProcessor reportProcessor = new ReportProcessor();
        Telerik.Reporting.InstanceReportSource instanceReportSource = new Telerik.Reporting.InstanceReportSource();
        instanceReportSource.ReportDocument = report;
        RenderingResult result = reportProcessor.RenderReport("PDF", instanceReportSource, null);
  
        using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create))
        {
            fs.Write(result.DocumentBytes, 0, result.DocumentBytes.Length);
        }
    }

VB.NET

Sub SaveReport(report As Telerik.Reporting.Report, fileName As String)
    Dim reportProcessor As New ReportProcessor()
    Dim instanceReportSource As New Telerik.Reporting.InstanceReportSource()
    instanceReportSource.ReportDocument = report
    Dim result As RenderingResult = reportProcessor.RenderReport("PDF", instanceReportSource, Nothing)
  
    Using fs As New FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create)
        fs.Write(result.DocumentBytes, 0, result.DocumentBytes.Length)
    End Using
End Sub

The function is called in the following way:

    SaveReport(new MyReport(), @"C:\MyReport.pdf");

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