Export to PDF file in ASP.Net – Gridview to PDF, ASPX Page Content to PDF

Creating data driven application is one of the most commonly done task in our day today application development. In these applications, reporting and generating reports in various formats is one of the repeated requirements we will get. Read the article Export to Excel in ASP.Net 2.0 – Gridview to Excel, DataTable to Excel which discusses some handful of techniques to export the data to excel file. Apart from excel reports, generating PDF report is one of the most common reporting requirement we will get in data driven application. Exporting data to PDF format is not a straight forward task like we do for excel file generation. To do this, we have to employ some 3rd party component or develop a component ourselves by understanding the PDF file standards.  http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/344_Export_to_PDF_file_in_ASPNet-Gridview_to_PDF_ASPX_Page_Content_to_PDF.aspx