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Net from and finally done the followings to make it work. Net core application, mvc or razor pages as preferred, and add a reference to the project. Net mvc project with proper and solid basic example for beginner. Jun 18, 2018 it will allow us to create a pdf document from our html string that we generate in the. Net mvc and razor to generate pdf files dave glick. You can follow the above process to generate pdf in asp.
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