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Export Large Reports

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Use the CachedReportSource component to export reports that include a large amount of data. This component allows you to avoid memory consumption-related issues by storing pages in a file system or database during document generation.

Create a CachedReportSource instance specifying a report to be exported and a storage to cache the report document.

using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
using DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Caching;
//...
    var storage = new MemoryDocumentStorage();
    var report = new XtraReport1();
    var cachedReportSource = new CachedReportSource(report, storage); 

The MemoryDocumentStorage object used in this code compactly stores a document in memory. You can use the FileDocumentStorage, DbDocumentStorage or implement a custom storage instead.

To export a report, generate a report document by calling the CreateDocument() method and use the exporting methods the CachedReportSource object’s PrintingSystem exposes.

using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
using DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Caching;
// ...

private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    var storage = new MemoryDocumentStorage();
    var report = new XtraReport1();
    var cachedReportSource = new CachedReportSource(report, storage);
    cachedReportSource.CreateDocument();
    cachedReportSource.PrinitngSystem.ExportToDocx();
}