<p>Is it possible for a stand alone executable to generate a report and output it as PDF (or one of the other export options available from the report viewer) without displaying the ReportViewer control? </p>

<p>The report definition should be embedded in the executable and should not use the Reporting Services web service.</p>

You don't have to show the control itself.
```
```
ReportViewer rv = new ReportViewer();
rv.LocalReport.ReportPath = "templatepath";
// or use file from resource with rv.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource

// add parameters, datasource, etc.

Warning[] warnings;
string[] streamids;
string mimeType;
string encoding;
string filenameExtension;

byte[] bytes;
bytes = rv.LocalReport.Render("PDF", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out filenameExtension, out streamids, out warnings);

// save byte[] to file with FileStream or something else
```
```
However it can render only PDF and XLS (as ReportViewer control cannot export to Word and others as Reportig Service can).
I forgot to mention that the above code is C#, using .NET framework and ReportViewer control. Check out
GotReportViewer
for a quickstart.