'What are my options for serving a dynamically generated PDF report as a download from an ASP.NET webserver?
I'm working on an application that stores a large amount of user-entered data in a MySQL DB regarding their performance in a competitive activity. We have a web interface that provides data visualization in the form of charts and graphs.
We're looking for a way to generate a PDF from a user's data using a provided UserID in our ASP.NET backend that users will be able to download.
The team's current thinking involves using a reporting tool like SSRS, generating the .rdl file from a template using the UserID, rendering the report as a PDF in the backend, and sending it to the user to download.
I'm very unfamiliar with report generation, but the more research I do, the more I wonder if a dynamic SSRS report is the right strategy for what we're trying to accomplish. If I were just doing this myself, I'd probably build a new view of the data using a print css stylesheet, but I'm not sure what the downsides to that strategy would be relative to building a report.
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