Welcome to RazorRending docs!

this is a small showcase on how we can generate a PDF from a razor template.

the project was created with asp.net core web api.
nugets :

• Autofac
• Haukcode.DinkToPdf

PDF Generation Process

Solution Structure

Example of usage (home controller)

Rendring template

_viewRender is of type IViewRender, you can get the concrete of that abstraction from constructor injection.

    //View name
    string htmlSource = 
    await _viewRender.
    RenderAsync<User>("HelloBuddy",
    new User { FirstName="Mehdi",LastName="Rifi"});
            
    //absolute path
    string htmlSource2 = 
    await _viewRender.
    RenderAsync("~/Views/Heros/TheFlash.cshtml");

RenderAsync support view name as well as the absolute path too.

Generating PDF

Generate pdf from html as string.
_pdfGenerator is of type IPdfGenerator, you can get the concrete of that abstraction from constructor injection.

    byte[] pdf = _pdfGenerator.
    GeneratePdfFromHtml(htmlSource);