creating pdf

Question

in my project when click a button i need to open a new pdf file in that file contain values from my database. how to create it. please help me

Glen Lewis · Answer

Hi manikanth I'm not sure if you want to create a new PDF from scratch in C# or do you want to use some sort of a template document. You see this second approach is more common you could create a word (DOCX) or template (DOTX) document in .NET which will define some place holders and then you can fill them with database data and convert the document to a PDF. I also used this approach with a help of this .net dll for word and other document type file processing  more specific I used MergeField elements in DOTX file and then execute a mail merge operation in C# to import new data after that I save the document into a PDF format. Also just in case if that approach does not suit your needs here is a sample how to create a new PDF file with DataTable's data: var dataTable = new DataTable (); // ... var document = new DocumentModel (); document.Sections.Add( new Section (document new Table (document dataTable.Rows.Count dataTable.Columns.Count (r c) => new TableCell (document new Paragraph (document dataTable.Rows[r][c].ToString()))))); document.Save( New File.pdf ); I hope this helps.

darjeam nh · Answer

here provides various ways to export database data to PDF in C# http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/385812/How-to-export-data-to-PDF-using-csharp

Anupam Singh · Answer

You can try ItextSharp  find a simple use here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/81118/ITextSharp-Helper-Class