#REPORT BUILDER 3.0 PDF#

Pleased with this result I was ready to use the LocalReport ability (вЂRepresents a report that is processed and rendered locally without connecting to a report serverвЂ™) to render the report in the MVC Controller and stream the PDF file as a result of the Controller method. but it got the job done in record time and the report exported to PDF nicely. The UI is not the easiest to work with when trying to do styling etc.

There are some tools out there that will do it but its not something I wanted to do. But then we had the issue of taking an HTML page and converting it to a PDF. However, for this project, it was just not right.ДЄt this point we started looking at using HTML 5 to generate the charts and just spit the data out on the page. We use Aspose.Cells in other projects where we need to generate reports that are mostly excel files to allow for data manipulation. It would save fine but the indicators and databars would not print in the PDF report. The main issues I ran into with Aspose.Cells was that indicators were buggy and would not work properly. Not even Microsoft has a good implementation that just works (especially in a server environment). To be clear, Excel is inherently tedious to work on and Aspose.Cells is the best implementation of Excel I have ever seen.

I didnвЂ™t have a lot of time to spend on the reporting aspect and It felt like I was writing VBA. This tool was simple to implement but very tedious to get looking just right. Then I tried Aspose.Cells to generate an excel sheet and perform the necessary conversion to PDF. Its as if they created it for regular ASP.NET and then hacked it for MVC. The other problem was with the way the reporting control (server side control) had to be used. The main pain point for me was that it did not support Radius charts and there were no plans to add it. It was easy to do but the charting gave me some headaches. The first thing I tried was the Telerik Reporting solution. But somehow, there were some Goldilocks moments which I present to you now. The requirement for the report was to show charts of the data and to provide the original data using databars and indicators and output it to PDF. This past week I had a need to create a report for an ASP.NET MVC 3 app I was working on.

Report builder 3.0