Save RDLC Report as PDF at Run Time in C#

Introduction

In my previous article I described how to create a RDLC report.

Now I show how to save a RDLC report as a PDF at run time.

I am creating a method for that named "SAVEPDF" with the two arguments:

• Path (Location) as string type where we want to save that PDF file.
  
  Example: C:\MyFile\
   
• Another is ReportViewer that is the instance of the ReportViewer Class
  
  On which we will perform the action to convert the report to a PDF; but not just PDF, we can save the file in another format, such as Word or Excel.

Here is the sample code:

public void SavePDF(ReportViewer viewer, string savePath)

{
     byte[] Bytes = viewer.LocalReport.Render(format:"PDF",deviceInfo:"");

     using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(savePath, FileMode.Create))
     {
              stream.Write(Bytes, 0, Bytes.Length);
    }
}

We can save the RDLC report in another format like Word or Excel; not just in PDF.