How do I display a PDF using PdfSharp in ASP.Net MVC?

Question

We\'re making an ASP.Net MVC app that needs to be able to generate a PDF and display it to the screen or save it somewhere easy for the user to access. We\'re using PdfSharp

Answer 1

I'm not familar with PDF sharp but for MVC is mostly done via built in functionality. You need to get your pdf document represented as an array of bytes. Then you'd simply use MVC's File method to return it to the browser and let it handle the download. Are there any methods on their class to do that?

public class PdfDocumentController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult GenerateReport(ReportPdfInput input)
    {
        //Get document as byte[]
        byte[] documentData;

        return File(documentData, "application/pdf");
    }

}