Posts Tagged ‘.net reporting’

Custom Export Filters to Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services

Vitaliy Korney

How to add up to 20+ Custom Export Filters to Silverlight Viewer for Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2008 in 3 Simple Steps using Aspose Rendering Extensions.

Introduction

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how a developer can create a Silverlight application with the ability to display SQL Server Reporting Services reports and export them to 20+ different formats, providing additional features and experience to application users.

To help us solve the task, we use Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services by Perpetuum Software, a software component allowing display SSRS reports in a Silverlight application and SSRS Rendering Extensions by Aspose, a set of rendering extensions allowing export SSRS reports to various formats, including DOC, DOCX, RTF, Excel 2003/2007, PPT, PPTX, FLV, SWF, etc.

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July 14th, 2011

Report SharpShooter without Visual Studio

Andrew Kazyrevich
 
I have a confession to make: I don’t like using Visual Studio when I play with Report SharpShooter.
 
Because for my tasks it’s ridiculous. Create a WinForms app, drop ReportManager on it, add a report slot, setup “Preview” button, and so on, on and on – all this rigamarole of the same steps every time I need to preview a report. Or design a new one.
 
There must be a better way, I thought. A way that would allow to bypass Visual Studio altogether, and display a report (or bring up Report Designer) immediately when you need it. And in this very article, my dear readers, I’m proudly presenting to you this new fascinating way of working with Sharp-Shooter. (more…)
June 10th, 2011

Localization with Report SharpShooter

Andrew Kazyrevich
 
So far your humble correspondent was blogging about rather well-known areas of Report SharpShooter, talking you through the thorns of report slots, bubble charts and customization to the stars of reporting.
 
But this time it will be different.
 
We will touch a topic so obscure and controversial, so aggravating and vexed, so inescapably large and blatantly unexplored, that there’s literally nothing you can find about it on the internet. (more…)
May 10th, 2011

ReportViewer with a ribbon toolbar

Andrew Kazyrevich
 
ReportViewer was designed to satisfy any imaginable need, from open-save-print to zoom-export-whatnot functionality. It was self-complete, self-explanatory and self-complacent. One might expect, people will never want to change anything there.
 
So what happened when real users got their hands on Report SharpShooter? You got it: they immediately began looking for ways to customize the viewer.
 
Go figure.
 
But as it turns out, it’s not too difficult to create custom UI which would reuse existing SharpShooter’s backend. In fact, we will do it right now: our task for today is to replace the toolbar in ReportViewer with a Microsoft Office-like ribbon. Sounds impressive, huh? By the end of this post, we’ll get something like this:
 

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April 24th, 2011