Creating email reports with attached PDFs
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I’ll soon enter a project where I’m going to create an “Mail Report Generator”. In our SQL Server database we have a lot of information connected to users to the system. Now I’m looking for different techniques to create these reports. The demands are that the email that is going to be sent should have an attached PDF-file which should contain tables, charts, and different types of diagram. I’ve been thinking of Microsoft Reporting Services as a solution for generating PDFs. Can that be a good way of doing it? All suggestions are welcomed!!
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I’ll soon enter a project where I’m going to create an “Mail Report Generator”. In our SQL Server database we have a lot of information connected to users to the system. Now I’m looking for different techniques to create these reports. The demands are that the email that is going to be sent should have an attached PDF-file which should contain tables, charts, and different types of diagram. I’ve been thinking of Microsoft Reporting Services as a solution for generating PDFs. Can that be a good way of doing it? All suggestions are welcomed!!
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Reporting Services would be really good..As far as I know, it's not only PDF but it also supports other formats like Excel, Images etc. I used it long back to create reports which users used to save their reports in different. If you are interested for sending automated mails, then you should definitely look into the APIs availble for generating PDFs. Anyway,I can suggest you to see few more availble reporting tools also for your comparison. Checkout once DevExpreshttp://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Reporting/[^]s Xtrareports. Let me know if you need any further details. :)
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