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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:15:19+00:00

We currently send an email notification in plain text or html format. Our environment

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We currently send an email notification in plain text or html format. Our environment is C#/.NET/SQL Server.

I’d like to know if anyone recommends a particular solution. I see two ways of doing this:

  • dynamically convert current email to pdf using a third party library and sending the pdf as an attachment

or

  • use SSRS to allow users to export pdf report (could eventually have SSRS push reports)

I’m open to third party libraries (especially if they are open source and free). It seems that SSRS is the simplest and easiest way to go. Anyone have any tips?

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  1. You can use iTextSharp to convert your html pages to pdf. Here’s an example:

    class Program {     static void Main(string[] args)     {         string html =  @'<html> <head>   <meta http-equiv=''Content-Type'' content=''text/html; charset=utf-8'' /> </head> <body>   <p style=''color: red;''>Hello World</p> </body> </html>';          Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);         using (Stream output = new FileStream('out.pdf', FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))         using (StringReader htmlReader = new StringReader(html))         using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(htmlReader))         {             PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);             HtmlParser.Parse(document, reader);         }      } }
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