Create a PDF document using just VB.NET?

Is it possible to create (set formatting, add text by form etc) a PDF document开发者_Python百科 in VB.NET without using any third party libraries? This would be done in a website.

I know you said w/o a third party control, but maybe free will work ... but I'll just throw this out there just in case in proves to be informational.

We have to do the same thing in our environment ... and we opted to just use Crystal Reports (which you have a license to with Visual Studio) and leverage the export to PDF functionality. Allows us to deliver pretty forms and lists to the customer.

I'm not a big fan of Crystal Reports, for a variety of reasons ... but it was easy to implement and at no additional cost to our end customer.

You can do this with iTextSharp, which is technically third-party (but it's free):

http://beta.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Creating_PDF_documents_in.aspx

Here are some more options:

http://www.aspnetworld.com/articles/2004011801.aspx