How to Export Crystal Report to PDF in C#, ASP.NET

There are times when you would like to Export Crystal reports to various formats like PDF, Excel, etc. We have a tutorial which explains the Various Report formats support by Crystal Reports. We have also explained how to Export Crystal Report Using Crystal Report Viewer Control and also explained the SDK Function available to Export.

In this tutorial, we will show how to export Crystal Report to PDF using an example.

Table of Contents

• How to Export Crystal Report to PDF
• Create Crystal Report
  • Add Command buttons

  How to Export Crystal Report to PDF

  

  Create Crystal Report

  Create a Visual Studio Project and add Crystal Report to it. If you are new to Crystal Report then read How to Create Crystal Report in Visual Studio from this link.

  In that project, we had used an employee table to generate the report. In this tutorial let us Customer table and create a report CustomerList. I will leave the report creation part to you and in case if you have any issues, please post your problem in the comments section.

  Add Command buttons

  Once you have created the project do the following

  1. Select CrystalReportViewerControl.
  2. Go to properties
  3. Locate Dock Property
     The default value of the dock property is Fill. The Fill property will not allow you to resize the control.
  4. Select it as None
  5. Resize CrystalReportViewerControl.
     Make free space at the top of the form.
  6. Add a command button. Name it as ExporttoDiskBtn and caption ExporttoDisk
  7. Add another command button. Name it as ExportBtn and caption Export.The form will look like this

  

  Open the form and import the following namespaces.