Friday, April 8, 2011

How to display a Reporting Services report as an inline PDF, in a ASP.Net and C# web page?

I need to display a preview of a report, in an ASP.Net web page (using C# server side scripts). The preview needs to be a PDF rather than HTML and displayed inline (possibly in an iframe?).

Is it possible to specify the headers of a report rendered as a PDF, so its 'Content-Disposition' is inline rather than attachment?

Or is there any other way to display a report rendered as a PDF inline in an ASP.Net web page?


I am using Reporting Services 2008

In the ASP.Net site I am using web references to ReportService2005.asmx and ReportExecution2005.asmx

From stackoverflow
  • I'm doing something that is very similar. But I'm using a HttpWebRequest instead of using the service. Here's how I'm doing it. The important part is the inline before the file name in the Content-Disposition.

    It also depends on their version of Adobe Reader (we found they need 7 or upwards) and the settings they have set inside it (in case they've set it to not open PDFs inside the browser).

    HttpResponse currentResponse = HttpContext.Current.Response;
    currentResponse.Clear();
    currentResponse.ClearHeaders();
    currentResponse.ClearContent();
    
    filename = String.Format("{0}.pdf", this.ReportName);
    currentResponse.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", String.Format("inline;filename={0}", filename));
    currentResponse.ContentType = "Application/PDF";
    
    //Copy the content of the response to the 
    //current response using BinaryWrite
    snip....
    
    currentResponse.End();
    

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