From time to time we get a request to allow the end user to download the information in PDF/Excel format. I find it very conveninet to use Report Viewer Control to accomplish these tasks. I would like to share two different scenerio

Scenerio 1: This is the most common scenerio in which we are requested to provide a web link for the user to download the report in Excel/PDF Fromate

Scenerio 2: We recently completed a project in which we were requested to generate the report in PDF format and email it to the customer.

In both Scenerio we used Report Viewer Control and Reporting Services to accomplish the task.