Send SQL Report in E mail attachment using C# and ASP.NET

Question

I am trying to send report from sql reportserver 2008 as e mail attachment using ASP.NET and C#, Till now I learned how to Get report as PDF in my code , Now I wanna combine line of codes like

byte[] bytes = rview.ServerReport.Render(format, deviceInfo, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamids, out warnings);
Response.OutputStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
Attachment reportAttachment = new Attachment(Response.OutputStream.Write(bytes,0,bytes.Length),"ado"); //Here I go wrong

Thanx in advance

Solution 1

Maybe I getting this wrong (I know little about SSRS) but I think you should

1. Save the file to the file system

   System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("c:\temp\temp.pdf", bytes);
   

2. Send the file by email

   MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
   mail.From        = "Me";
   mail.To          = "You";
   mail.Subject     = "Subject";
   mail.Body        = "Body";
   mail.BodyFormat  = MailFormat.Html;
   mail.Attachments.Add(new MailAttachment("c:\temp\temp.pdf"));
   
   try
   {
      SmtpMail.Send(mail); 
   }
   catch(Exception ex)
   {
      Response.Write("Ouch! " + ex.Message);
   }
   

Solution 2

You could also use SSRS Subscriptions. It has email functionality built-in.

Prerequisites:

• You have your report set up.
• You have your SSRS report Server configured to send emails.
• Your SSRS server is 2010 or later. I'm not sure if 2008 and before support subscriptions.

Microsoft's documentation from the UI standpoint

Code:

var service = new ReportingService2010();
service.Url = reportServiceURL;
service.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password, domain);

var reportPath = "your/report/location";

string report = $"{reportPath}YourReportName.rdl";
string fileName = $"Your Custom Report";

//If your report requires input parameters, specify them in an array.
ParameterValue[] reportParameters = new ParameterValue[1];

reportParameters[0] = new ParameterValue();
reportParameters[0].Name = "ID";
reportParameters[0].Value = ID.ToString();

ParameterValue[] extensionParams = new ParameterValue[11];//Adjust this if you omit parameters.

extensionParams[0] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[0].Name = "TO";
extensionParams[0].Value = "[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];"

//CC, can be omitted.
extensionParams[1] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[1].Name = "CC";
extensionParams[1].Value = "[email protected];[email protected];"

//BCC, can be omitted.
extensionParams[2] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[2].Name = "BCC";
extensionParams[2].Value = "[email protected];[email protected];"

//Reply to, where replies should go.
extensionParams[3] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[3].Name = "ReplyTo";
extensionParams[3].Value = "[email protected]"

//Include report as an attachment, this should be TRUE.
extensionParams[4] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[4].Name = "IncludeReport";
extensionParams[4].Value = "True"

//What you want the attached file to render as. You have some options.
extensionParams[5] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[5].Name = "RenderFormat";
extensionParams[5].Value = "PDF"; //pdf
//extensionParams[5].Value = "WORD"; //doc, word 2003 - 2007
//extensionParams[5].Value = "WORDOPENXML"; //docx, word 2010 - 2013+
//extensionParams[5].Value = "EXCEL"; //xls, excel 2003 - 2007
//extensionParams[5].Value = "EXCELOPENXML"; //xlsx, excel 2010 - 2013+
//extensionParams[5].Value = "IMAGE"; //TIFF file
//extensionParams[5].Value = "CSV"; //CSV file
//extensionParams[5].Value = "XML"; //XML file

//Optional, set the priority of the message.
extensionParams[6] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[6].Name = "Priority";
extensionParams[6].Value = "High";
//extensionParams[6].Value = "Normal";
//extensionParams[6].Value = "Low";

//Subject Line
extensionParams[7] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[7].Name = "Subject";
extensionParams[7].Value = "Your lovely report";

//Comment, I believe this is the "body" of the email.
extensionParams[8] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[8].Name = "Comment";
extensionParams[8].Value = "Hi there, <br/><br/>I have your report. Thanks for automating me out of the job, you programmer you!";

//Include a hyperlink to run the report in the email body?  Can be omitted.
extensionParams[9] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[9].Name = "IncludeLink";
extensionParams[9].Value = "False";

//If you want to send it "on behalf of" someone, use this. Can be omitted.
extensionParams[10] = new ParameterValue();
extensionParams[10].Name = "SendEmailToUserAlias";
extensionParams[10].Value = "[email protected]";

ExtensionSettings extSettings = new ExtensionSettings();
extSettings.ParameterValues = extensionParams;
extSettings.Extension = "Report Server Email";

//FYI date must be in ISO 8601 format. This sets it to one minute from now, and will only run once.
string matchData = $"<ScheduleDefinition><StartDateTime>{DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(1).ToString("s")}</StartDateTime></ScheduleDefinition>";

reportingService.CreateSubscription(reportName, extSettings, fileName, "TimedSubscription", matchData, reportParameters);

Comments

[adopilot]

Thanks System.IO works like charm, Only one little remark, firs argument is String address of file and second is byte[]. Any way now I have an idea to make web service for doing this job, Will it be so hard and different than making just sample Web page