Saving reports in WPF ReportWriter Control

2 Jun 20212 minutes to read

Essential ReportWriter provides support for saving a report as a PDF, Word, Excel and HTML documents with the help of the class ReportWriter. The report elements such as Tablix, matrices, charts, gauges, shapes, and text boxes are supported in this feature.

Saving report as PDF

The report generated using the ReportDesigner can be exported as a PDF document using the following code.

C#

//Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
ReportWriter reportWriter = new ReportWriter(reportpath, dataSources);
reportWriter.Save("Sample.pdf", WriterFormat.PDF);

VBNET

'Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
Dim reportWriter As New ReportWriter (reportpath, dataSources)
reportWriter.Save("Sample.pdf", WriterFormat.PDF)

Saving report as Excel

The report generated using the ReportDesigner can be exported as an Excel document using the following code example.

C#

//Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
ReportWriter reportWriter = new ReportWriter(reportPath, dataSources);
reportWriter.Save("Sample.xls", WriterFormat.Excel);

VBNET

'Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
Dim reportWriter As New ReportWriter (reportPath, dataSources)
reportWriter.Save("Sample.xls", WriterFormat.Excel)

Saving report as Word

The report generated using the ReportDesigner can also be exported as a Word document using the following code example.

C#

// Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
ReportWriter reportWriter = new ReportWriter(reportPath, dataSources);
reportWriter.Save("Sample.doc", WriterFormat.WORD);

VBNET

'Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
Dim reportWriter As New ReportWriter (reportPath, dataSources)
reportWriter.Save("Sample.doc", WriterFormat.WORD)

Saving report as an HTML

The report generated using the ReportDesigner can be exported as an HTML document using the following code example.

C#

//Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
ReportWriter reportWriter = new ReportWriter(reportPath, dataSources);
reportWriter.Save("Sample.html", WriterFormat.HTML);

VBNET

'Instantiate the report writer with the parameter "ReportPath" and "ReportDataSourceCollection".
Dim reportWriter As New ReportWriter (reportPath, dataSources)
reportWriter.Save("Sample.html", WriterFormat.HTML)