Rendering or Exporting a SSRS 2008 report to RTF

Question

I am using Microsoft.ReportViewer to display SSRS reports from my C# desktop application. The ReportViewr by default provides the 3 modes of export features, 1. Excel. 2. Word, 3. PDF. Now we want another export capability of RTF. Does any one have any idea how to convert the SSRS reports to RTF format?

Answer 1

Our vendor who set up our first SSRS install uses Aspose.  See the link below to a page that discusses their rendering product for SSRS. 

http://www.aspose.com/reporting-services/total-component.aspx

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Lee Markum

Answer 2

Hi Voonna,

The Report Viewer can generate reports independently using a built-in engine (local mode), or it can display reports that are generated on a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Server (remote mode).

If you use remote mode with a report server, you can get all rendering export formats installed on the report server. While if you use local mode without a report server, the local mode report viewer provides only Excel, word and PDF export format.

Thanks,
Katherine Xiong

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Answer 3

I see that in the blog you have suggested above, we are using a third party tool (Aspose). Is it legal to modify the Microsoft Report Viewer control with a third party dll? Wont there be any liscencing issues by doing this?

Answer 4

Hi Voonna,

I’m sorry for ignoring license issue on the previous reply, any modification to Microsoft software is illegal. So we can’t use a third party tool (Aspose) to modify the Microsoft Report Viewer control.

Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks,
Katherine Xiong

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Answer 5

Voona and Katherine,  

I can look into exactly how Aspose is being implemented by our vendor so I can determine if something inappropriate has been done. Thanks for the info.  It appears that Aspose offers SSRS rendering extensions.  Not sure how the product works at this point.

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Lee Markum