Reporting In Visual Studio 2005 An in-depth look at Reporting Internals Vijay Shandilya Software Engineer.NET Elite Team Aithent Technology

Agenda.Net Reporting Report Viewer Control Drill-down  Type  Features  Guide Lines  Menu Items  Tools Support  Expressions  Designing Tips

.Net Reporting Two way to reporting in.Net  Crystal Report (Requires additional licenses.)  Report Viewer Control (new component added) ReportViewer Control  The ReportViewer Web server control  The ReportViewer Windows Forms control ReportViewer Web server control  Local processing mode  Remote processing mode

Processing Mode Local processing mode  Refers to report processing that is performed by the ReportViewer control within the client application.  All report processing is performed as a local process using data that your application provides. Remote processing mode  Refers to report processing that is performed by a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report server.  In remote processing mode, the ReportViewer control is used as a viewer to display a predefined report that is already published on a Reporting Services report server.  All processing from data retrieval to report rendering is performed on the report server.

Report Definition Language A report definition contains data retrieval and layout information for a report. Report Definition Language (RDL) is an XML representation of this report definition. RDL is an open schema; can extend RDL with additional attributes and elements. In RDLC here ‘C’ stand for Client Side.

Kind of Reports Freeform reports  Composed of data regions & report items. Multicolumn reports  Present data in contiguous columns. Drill through reports  Data exploration through links Interactive reports  Include links, bookmarks, document maps. Simple reports  Include a single table or chart.

Reporting Features Expressions for calculating and aggregating data, and/or to support conditional formatting. Actions to support links, bookmarks, and document maps in HTML reports. Parameters, filters, sorting, and grouping functionality so that you can retrieve and organize the data with precision. Support for adding custom code assemblies so that you can provide dynamic functionality or special features in a report. Run-time functionality so that users can navigate a large report, search for specific data, export the report to a file, print the report, and more.

Report Menu  Report Parameter The Report Viewer Control

Report Menu  Embedded Images

The Report Viewer Control Report Menu  Report Data Sources

The Report Viewer Control Report Menu  Report Properties

Add Code, Reference, Class, Assembly Type the methods to be used within the report. Code must be written in Microsoft Visual Basic. References.  Lists the assemblies that the report references. Classes.  Lists the instance classes that are used by the report.

The Report Viewer Control The Tool Box  Text Box  Line  Table  Matrix  Rectangle  List  Image  Sub report  Chart

Report Viewer Control Page Header Body Page Footer Width

The Report Viewer Control Text Box  Format : To format string  HideDuplicate : To hide duplicate in a scope  Padding : Pad left or right space  Value : Value of text box  WritingMode : Horizontal Or Vertical

Table Properties  Group  Filter  Sorting  Header  Footer Report Viewer Control Table Header Table Detail Table Footer Group 1

Matrix Properties  Group,Filter, Sorting  GroupsBeforeRowHeaders  LayoutDirection  Position (SubTotal) Report Viewer Control Row Column DataTotal

Rectangle Report Viewer Control

List  Group  Filter  Sorting Report Viewer Control

Image  Source  Value  Action  MIMEType  Sizing Report Viewer Control

SubReport  ReportName  Parameter Report Viewer Control

Expression  Globals Execution Time Page Number Total Pages Report Folder Report Name  Parameter  Fields  DataSets Report Viewer Control

Expression  Operators Arithmetic : +, -, ^, *, /, \, Mod Comparison :, >,=,<>,Like, Is Concatenation : &,+ Logical : And, Not, Or, Xor, AndAlso, OrElse Report Viewer Control

Expression  Common Function Text : Trim, LCase, Replace, Split, Format etc. Date & Time : CDate, DateDiff, DatePart, Month etc. Math : Abs, Min, Max, Rnd, Pow, Sqrt etc. Inspection : IsNumeric, IsNothing, IsDate etc. Program Flow : Choose, IIf, Switch Aggregate : Avg, Count, CountDistinct, CountRow Conversion : CDate, CChar, CInt, CBool Miscellaneous : Previous, RowNumber etc. Report Viewer Control

Use Expression

Property:  PrintOnLastPage  PrintOnFirstPage Margin:  Set Left : 0.5  Set Right : 0.5 To Show Total on Footer  Create a textbox which has total field.  Hide it to report body OR create Fore Ground Color as the back ground color.  Use Report.Items(“txtTotal”).value to show total on the footer Report Viewer Control

 vbCrlf  vbTab  Custom Report Items  =Int((RowNumber(Nothing)-1)/10) Report Viewer Control

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