Export a Page Report (Rendering Extension)

You can use the rendering extensions for Image, HTML, PDF, XML or Word to render a page report in any of the supported formats. See Rendering for details on rendering formats.

The following steps provide an example of rendering a report in the format.

In Visual Studio, create a new Windows Forms Application or open an existing one containing a Page Report.
Copy and place the Page Report in the project's Debug folder.
On the Form.cs or Form.vb that opens, double-click the title bar to create the Form_Load event.
Add the following code inside the Form_Load event.

To write the code in Visual Basic.NET

Visual Basic.NET code. Paste INSIDE the Form Load event.	Copy Code
' Provide the page report you want to render. Dim _reportDef As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.PageReport(New System.IO.FileInfo("MovieRatings.rdlx")) Dim _reportRuntime As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Document.PageDocument(_reportDef) ' Set the file format you want the report to be rendered in. Dim FileName As String = Application.StartupPath + "\ActiveReports.pdf" ' Provide settings for your rendering output. Dim settings As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.Settings() settings.HideToolbar = True settings.HideMenubar = True settings.HideWindowUI = True ' Set the rendering extension and render the report. Dim _renderingExtension As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.PdfRenderingExtension() Dim _exportfile As FileStreamProvider = New FileStreamProvider(New DirectoryInfo(Path.GetDirectoryName(FileName)), Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(FileName)) _reportRuntime.Render(_renderingExtension, _exportfile, settings)

To write the code in C#

C# code. Paste INSIDE the Form Load event.	Copy Code
// Provide the page report you want to render. GrapeCity.ActiveReports.PageReport _reportDef = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.PageReport(new System.IO.FileInfo(@"MovieRatings.rdlx")); GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Document.PageDocument _reportRuntime = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Document.PageDocument(_reportDef); // Set the file format you want the report to be rendered in. string FileName = Application.StartupPath + "\\ActiveReports.pdf"; // Provide settings for your rendering output. GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.Settings settings = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.Settings(); settings.HideToolbar = true; settings.HideMenubar = true; settings.HideWindowUI = true; // Set the rendering extension and render the report. GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.PdfRenderingExtension _renderingExtension = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.Page.PdfRenderingExtension(); FileStreamProvider _exportfile = new FileStreamProvider(new DirectoryInfo(Path.GetDirectoryName(FileName)), Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(FileName)); _reportRuntime.Render(_renderingExtension, _exportfile, settings);

Note: The code above works for any supported rendering format. Simply, replace the instances of PDF with the specific rendering format type and use the desired rendering extension.

Note: By default, the image rendering extension creates a separate file for each page in a report and adds an index to each corresponding file name (for example, image001.PNG, image002.PNG, etc).

To render the entire report as a single image, set the Pagination setting to False.

Concepts

Rendering