Exporting data from Gridview to PDF Format in C#

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using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

using iTextSharp.text.html;

using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;

 

 
protected void btnExport_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition",

     "attachment;filename=SearchInfo.pdf");

    Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);

    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

    HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);

    dgSearch.AllowPaging = false;

    dgSearch.DataBind();

    dgSearch.RenderControl(hw);

    StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());

    Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f,10f,10f,0f);

    HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);

    PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);

    pdfDoc.Open();

    htmlparser.Parse(sr);

    pdfDoc.Close();

    Response.Write(pdfDoc);

    Response.End();

 


}