Export to pdf in C#

 Hello

Friends in last article(link) I have shown how to export gridview data to excel and word format. Now in this   article I am going to show export to pdf.

For this you need gridview you can bind grid using database refer this link for code to bind gridview (Bind Grid)

Aspx page code for gridview and button click

 <asp:ImageButton ID="btnPDF" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/PDF.jpg" Width="32px" Height="32px"  OnClick="btnPDF_Click" />

        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" Font-Names="Arial"

            Font-Size="11pt" AlternatingRowStyle-BackColor="#C2D69B" HeaderStyle-BackColor="green"

            AllowPaging="True" OnPageIndexChanging="OnPaging" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333"

            GridLines="None">

            <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White"></AlternatingRowStyle>

            <Columns>

                <asp:TemplateField>

                    <HeaderTemplate>

                        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkCol0" runat="server" Checked="true" />

                        <asp:Label ID="lblCol0" runat="server" Text="CustomerID" />

                    </HeaderTemplate>

                    <ItemTemplate>

                        <asp:Label ID="lblCustomerID" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("CustomerID")%>' />

                    </ItemTemplate>

                </asp:TemplateField>

                <asp:TemplateField>

                    <HeaderTemplate>

                        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkCol1" runat="server" Checked="true" />

                        <asp:Label ID="lblCol1" runat="server" Text="ContactName" />

                    </HeaderTemplate>

                    <ItemTemplate>

                        <asp:Label ID="lblContactName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ContactName")%>' />

                    </ItemTemplate>

                </asp:TemplateField>

                <asp:TemplateField>

                    <HeaderTemplate>

                        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkCol2" runat="server" Checked="true" />

                        <asp:Label ID="lblCol2" runat="server" Text="City"></asp:Label>

                    </HeaderTemplate>

                    <ItemTemplate>

                        <asp:Label ID="lblCity" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("City")%>' />

                    </ItemTemplate>

                </asp:TemplateField>

            </Columns>

            <EditRowStyle BackColor="#2461BF" />

            <FooterStyle BackColor="#507CD1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />

            <HeaderStyle BackColor="#507CD1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White"></HeaderStyle>

            <PagerStyle BackColor="#2461BF" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />

            <RowStyle BackColor="#EFF3FB" />

            <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#D1DDF1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />

            <SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#F5F7FB" />

            <SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#6D95E1" />

            <SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#E9EBEF" />

            <SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#4870BE" />

        </asp:GridView>

Code for export to pdf   format

protected void btnPDF_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)

    {

        Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

        Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=UserDetails.pdf");

        Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);

        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

        HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);

        GridView1.AllowPaging = false;

        GridView1.DataBind();

        GridView1.RenderControl(hw);

        GridView1.HeaderRow.Style.Add("width", "15%");

        GridView1.HeaderRow.Style.Add("font-size", "10px");

        GridView1.Style.Add("text-decoration", "none");

        GridView1.Style.Add("font-family", "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;");

        GridView1.Style.Add("font-size", "8px");

        StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());

        Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A2, 7f, 7f, 7f, 0f);

        HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);

        PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);

        pdfDoc.Open();

        htmlparser.Parse(sr);

        pdfDoc.Close();

        Response.Write(pdfDoc);

        Response.End();

    }

You can download complete from this link Download Code