I am getting to reporting with C# and Visual Studio 2010 for the first time. Most of my applications are win forms apps drivin by sql server data. What should I use to get started with reporting? I see there is a built in report designer in the toolbox and also a way to add reports at the project level. This includes some sort of built in report designer and a report wizard. Also I noticed a reporting designer called Crystal reports.
Is there a good direction I should go? Also any tips to get me started so I do not waste a lot of time?
Any help or direction would be appreciated! Thanks!
Go for Crystal Reports, Its a well known reporting tool and you will find a lot of resources on the net about it. In addition to that, It is totally Free.
Check these for more details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa287920%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms225615%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wud4VtqpetU
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I have a fairly large application that we have been using VS 2008 for including Report Viewer 2008. Lately we have made the hop and decided to migrate to VS 2015, however in doing so VS 2015 requires all .RDLC templates be converted to the latest format to use the designer. After doing so I am indeed able to open the reports in the designer and they visually appear to have ported fine however they fail to load in the compiled application all together. I receive the following error
An error occurred during local report processing.
I understand this is a pretty generic error so I know it's not much help. Additionally all reports work fine prior to the conversion in the compiled application I simply can't open them in the designer. I have attempted to use a newer version of report viewer and it did fix this specific issue and reports loaded however it introduced other issues as well as a deployment headache, so ideally this would be possible with SSRS 2008.
Does anyone have any idea what the conversion might be doing to make reports specifically not load with ReportViewer 2008? Are the converted templates incompatible?
Thank you ahead of time for any help.
I am doing maintenance on a winforms project, VS2013 framework 4.5
Now I got to a point where some reports need to be build, but I cannot find the report generator that comes with visual studio.
So, this might be a stupid question, but where is the report generator from visual studio ?
Its been some years since I worked with a microsoft programming tool but I believe that something called crystal reports was delivered with older versions of visual studio. What is the report generator that is delivered with visual studio these days and where to find it ?
You can still use the ReportViewer that comes with Visual Studio to view reports. You can simply draw that control on your Form.
For the creation of reports, you can add a new Report item to your project, which works inside the visual designer of Visual Studio. This will create a .rdlc file.
Crystal Reports doesn't have a bundle agreement with Microsoft any more, so they can't be found pre-installed any more. You can still download it though.
I'm a newbie to a large project. I need to edit a report form. As i know it was made in newer version of VS and it used an earlier framework for form and as i know it have something with devwxpress. When i try to open it it only showing me an error:
Combo box and drop down controls cannot be created via automation.
But it still running well in debugging mode. And that's all. Anybody knows why it is causing?
As stated here, I think your project was developed using DevExpress < 12.2, and you're trying to open/edit a DevExpress report on Visual Studio > 2012.
This way, even you could edit some forms that uses DevExpress components, you will not be able to edit DevExpress Reports. I had the same result here, lot of googling with no avail
I've created a bunch of RPT files and we've been using Business Objects to run them against our sql db using a different param's for each rpt file to generate a pdf.
Is there an api I can use to run these reports?
I've downloaded and installed crystal reports for visual studio, but (1) I'm not sure which dll's I need to add to accomplish this and (2) I can't find any documentation or sample code -- can anyone point me in the right direction?
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish, your question is not very clear. If you are looking for a program to view the reports in, SAP has a free version of the Crystal Reports Viewer available here. If you want to create applications to run your reports in, you will need something like Visual Studio, which lets you create Windows Forms or Web Applications to embed your Crystal Reports in.
EDIT: To add Crystal Reports to Visual Studio you will first need to download the runtime from SAP. Most commom runtimes can be found here. Then you will have to add the CR to your toolbox in VS by choosing Tools -> choose Toolbox items. Make sure the .NET Frameworks Components tab is selected and scroll to the CrystalReport items. Check the items you want to add (CrystalReportViewer for sure) and click OK. After that the CR Viewer should be available to you in the Reporting section of your toolbox.
Hey guys I'm a newbie and I just wanted to know of the people who do Winforms on Visual studio, at your place of work do your forms have IDE support. Because for some reason I don't have IDE support on 99% of the windows forms I'm working with. I mean I can not see anything on the design view except for errors is this the usual case in industry????
Are you using any 3rd party UI controls? Some have dll's for the design view to work, and if you haven't installed the toolkit on your developer machine you might get errors like this.
One possible explanation for having errors on forms is licensing. If your company uses third-party controls on their forms, they could cause errors when trying to display the forms on unlicensed machines.
Another possible explanation for errors with third-party controls is simply installation. If you don't have the controls installed and referenced properly, that could also cause errors.
You could try to post some of the errors you have to another Stack Overflow question, and perhaps the community could help you solve your errors.
Sorry, WinForms is not broken for us (me). Check your code. Sometimes WinForms applications that were developed under Visual Sudio 2003 (or earlier) when upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 (or later) become unstable.
Start with a new form, and if the IDE (it is called a visual designer) works fine, then think about re-creating the old forms from scratch with the newest VS installation.
Your question isn't clear!, if the Visual Studio Designer not working well then re-install the IDE
Or explain more...
You should be able to view the forms in the design view.
Always unless there is an error in code. In case the project is building you should get the same error (this is a runtime error) that you will generally get when you run the code.
In case the project is not building it will be simpler to fix the errors :)