Microsoft Report Controls

Friday, June 10, 2005

I've just found out by browsing the TechEd powerpoints that there's a new 'Report Control' in .NET 2.0, which can be used in Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications (so they are actually two controls ;) ), that don't require (but support) Reporting Services.

This means you can load a DataSet (or a collection of simple objects), and bind it to a report.

It's kind of what we have with Crystal Reports, but that instead of having a binary format for the reports, it's XML, which makes it very easy for us code-generation-junkies to create them.

2 Comments

Remember which presentation or session this was in?

SH - Friday, June 10, 2005 1:10:00 PM

SH:

The presentation was:

DAT385

Using the New Microsoft Report Controls in Visual Studio 2005

Brian Welcker Group Program

Manager SQL Server Reporting Services Microsoft Corporation

Stephane:

It looks to work OK without Reporting Services...

Andres Aguiar - Friday, June 10, 2005 11:47:00 PM

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