title: Rendering RDLC to pdf output console application
body: <p>I have referred some articles in this website for Rendering .rdlc to .pdf output using console application.Am new to C# .net built a application for the same as below gives an error saying
  :>Rdclrender.exe!Rdclrender.Program.Main(string[] args = {string[0]}) Line 28 
  My class is given below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms;
  
  
  namespace Rdclrender
  {
      class Program
      {
          static void Main(string[] args)
          {
              // Variables
              Warning[] warnings;
              string[] streamIds;
              string mimeType = string.Empty;
              string encoding = string.Empty;
              string extension = string.Empty;
  
  
              // Setup the report viewer object and get the array of bytes
              ReportViewer viewer = new ReportViewer();
              viewer.ProcessingMode = ProcessingMode.Local;
              viewer.LocalReport.ReportPath = "Report.rdlc";
  
  
              byte[] bytes = viewer.LocalReport.Render("PDF", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamIds, out warnings);
  
              using (System.IO.FileStream fs = new System.IO.FileStream("output.pdf", System.IO.FileMode.Create))
              {
                  fs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
              }
              // Now that you have all the bytes representing the PDF report, buffer it and send it to the client.
              /*  Response.Buffer = true;
                Response.Clear();
                Response.ContentType = mimeType;
                Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName + "." + extension);
                Response.BinaryWrite(bytes); // create the file
                Response.Flush(); // send it to the client to download*/
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this is the way to create pdf from .rdl? I had renamed my .rdl to .rdlc manually an added .rdlc item to project.</p>