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POASP.NET MVC 2 View (ViewModel) -> MS Word or PDF Generation?
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copied!<p>Id like to have my mvc 2 app generating reports in both MS Word and PDF formats....currently working on Word. I found this: </p> <p><a href="http://www.revium.com.au/articles/sandbox/aspnet-mvc-convert-view-to-word-document/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.revium.com.au/articles/sandbox/aspnet-mvc-convert-view-to-word-document/</a></p> <p>Which i think basically streams the view output from a controller action to a word document....</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult DetailedReport() { //[...] return View(); } public ActionResult DetailedReportWord() { string url = "DetailedReport"; return new WordActionResult(url, "detailed-report.doc"); } </code></pre> <p>And heres the class that extends ActionResult</p> <pre><code>public class WordActionResult : ActionResult { private string Url { get; set;} private string FileName { get; set;} public WordActionResult(string url, string fileName) { Url = url; FileName = fileName; } public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) { var curContext = HttpContext.Current; curContext.Response.Clear(); curContext.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" + FileName); curContext.Response.Charset = ""; curContext.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); curContext.Response.ContentType = "application/ms-word"; var wreq = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(Url); var wres = (HttpWebResponse) wreq.GetResponse(); var s = wres.GetResponseStream(); var sr = new StreamReader(s, Encoding.ASCII); curContext.Response.Write(sr.ReadToEnd()); curContext.Response.End(); } </code></pre> <p>} </p> <p>Which looks pretty good - but my problem is that my view renders from a ViewModel, here is the Action</p> <pre><code>[HttpPost] public ActionResult StartSearch(SearchResultsViewModel model) { SearchResultsViewModel resultsViewModel = _searchService.Search(model.Search, 1, PAGE_SIZE); return View("Index", resultsViewModel); } </code></pre> <p>and here is my model:</p> <pre><code>public class SearchResultsViewModel { [SearchWordLimit] public string Search { get; set; } public IEnumerable<Employee> Employees { get; private set; } public IEnumerable<Organization> Organizations { get; private set; } public PageInfo PageInfo { get; private set;} public SearchResultsViewModel() { } public SearchResultsViewModel(string searchString, IEnumerable<Employee> employees, IEnumerable<Organization> organizations, PageInfo pageInfo) { Search = searchString; Employees = employees; Organizations = organizations; PageInfo = pageInfo; } } </code></pre> <p>I'm having trouble kinda connecting the two - to stream the view using my viewmodel to pdf</p>

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