How print a report from a datagridview of a form in PDF format

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_{Monday, August 22, 2016 6:39 PM}

How can I print a report from a datagridview of a form in PDF format?

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_{Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:59 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Eduardo,

You could first bind the data to datagridview. Then add the ‘DGVPrinter’ reference to your project, download from this link: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18042/Another-DataGridView-Printer

I create a simple demo about print a datagridview. Using button click event to print datagridview as report. The code snippet as following:

Imports DGVPrinterHelper
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim Printer = New DGVPrinter
        Printer.Title = "DataGridView Report"
        Printer.SubTitle = "An Easy to Use DataGridView Printing Object"
        Printer.SubTitleFormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.LineLimit Or StringFormatFlags.NoClip
        Printer.PageNumbers = True
        Printer.PageNumberInHeader = False
        Printer.PorportionalColumns = True
        Printer.HeaderCellAlignment = StringAlignment.Near
        Printer.Footer = "Your Company Name Here"
        Printer.FooterSpacing = 15
        Printer.PrintDataGridView(Me.DataGridView1)
    End Sub
End Class

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_{Tuesday, August 23, 2016 6:20 PM ✅Answered}

You can use the iTextSharp library:

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Export-Windows-Forms-DataGridView-to-PDF-using-iTextSharp-C-and-VBNet.aspx

Paul ~~~~ Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

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_{Wednesday, August 31, 2016 1:20 PM ✅Answered}

Does this code generate a PDF as the OP requested?

Paul ~~~~ Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

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_{Monday, September 5, 2016 2:22 PM}

The next error appears: "The DGVPrinter type is not defined"

How can I solve this error?

Thanks in advance.