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Can I use Microsoft Reporting to report the content of a dataset in a form?

Asked by: DavidRothan

I'm developing an application in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008.

I've successfully used the Microsoft Reporting Wizard to generate reports from an SQL server database and from SQL compact database files.

I've created an untyped dataset containing a single table in my main form. My application is filling the table with data at runtime and displaying the data in a datagridview.

Is it possible to report the contents of the table contained in the untyped dataset object in the form? The reporting wizard doesn't seem to offer me the option of choosing the dataset as my datasource.

I've tried adding and configuring the dataset in the solution explorer. This dataset IS visible to the report designer now, but I can't work out how to refer to it from my code!! Should it be an embedded resource? How do I get at it from the code? That must be a simple one to solve!

Or, am I just going about the whole thing the wrong way?!

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2009-11-03 at 03:58:21ID24866738
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Answers

 

by: emoreauPosted on 2009-11-03 at 04:35:41ID: 25728277

check the "hello world" samplre from http://www.gotreportviewer.com/

 

by: DavidRothanPosted on 2009-11-03 at 04:42:30ID: 25728326

The sample is C#. No good to me I'm afraid.

 

by: emoreauPosted on 2009-11-03 at 04:45:40ID: 25728353

you can remove the ; and the job is almost done!

there are also free tools like http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/ that tries to convert code.

 

by: DavidRothanPosted on 2009-11-03 at 04:59:49ID: 25728444

Given that I think I'm almost there anyway, I really don't want to spend any time discovering the delights of converting c code to vb just to figure out how to report off of a dataset!! I can't even open that sample in VS2008.

What I'm trying to do should be quite simple and I've got 75% of it working! Let me summarise.

I would like to:

1) Create a dataset containing a single table, somewhere in my project! In the form maybe? In the solution explorer?

2) Add a datagridview to a form and configure it to display the contents of the table.

3) Create another form containing a reportviewer that will display the contents of the table and allow for printing.

I've got steps 1 and 2 working fine (with the dataset in the form) but the dataset is not available to the report wizard.

I've added the dataset as a new item in the solution explorer and now the report wizard can 'see' it, but I'm not sure how I can write any data to it. So, I created an instance of the dataset and now I can add rows to the instance, but I'm not sure how I can pass the instance to the datagridview or the report.

This should be easy, right? What's the obvious bit that I'm missing!!

 

by: VBRocksPosted on 2009-11-03 at 06:49:58ID: 25729442

Check out this excellent article on Microsoft Reports, written by my good friend Jorge Paulino:

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/MicrosoftReports.aspx


Additional reading:

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/reporting-services/MicrosoftReportsII.aspx

 

by: DavidRothanPosted on 2009-12-06 at 09:23:09ID: 31649347

An excellent source of information, Thanks for the link.

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