Jay Kimble

OK, I'm going to go ahead and make this publicly available.  I still haven't remembered completely how it works (I need to go back and review some code).

Here's what I remember (so this is the reader's digest version). 
1) Derive the Web Form from ithPDFPage.ithPrintPageWithIText (that would mean “inherits ithPDFPage.ithPrintPageWithIText“ in VB.Net)
2) In the Page_Load event call the SetPdfPrintableControls with a list of ClientIDs to include (This is an paramarray in VB, so you do something like this: SetPdfPrintableControls(“Label1“, “Table1“, “Label3“)
3) When you want to render a PDF simply call “PDFMode()“ and it will render your page as a PDF.  I know that I don't have all controls defined as of yet.  It should work with Labels, Text boxes, tables, and datagrids.

Oh yeah here's the URL, http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ithPDFPage (source code only release).  You'll also need ItextSharp which you can get here.  It also uses SharpZip (but you don't need to go get it; I believe that ItextSharp ships with an old version... but if you want to build everything from scratch, so you can use the latest SharpZip...)

There's a test web site that doesn't work all the way yet in the workspace.  When I recover everything I know about this project I'll post it here.  There's also another component that can be used to handle user controls that you have created/

BTW, “Adventures in OOP” readers here's a decent example of why you might want to derive a base page class (also I think the implementation is fairly decent as well).