Imagine an enterprise application that's been generating monthly financial reports through SQL Server Reporting Services for the past decade. The reports look professional, stakeholders know how to request modifications through Report Builder, and the infrastructure has been running reliably on a dedicated Windows Server. Then your team starts building a new web portal that needs to generate PDF invoices dynamically from user transactions, and someone asks: "Can we just use SSRS for this too?" This question reveals a fundamental category mismatch that many .NET teams encounter. SSRS is an enterprise reporting platform designed for creating paginated reports from database queries using visual designers and RDL files. It excels at scheduled report generation, subscription delivery, and report management portals. What SSRS is not built for is rendering arbitrary HTML content into PDFs programmatically within your application code.…