Paul Patterson
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Paul Patterson
asked on 12 Nov 2010, 05:01 PM
Hi all!
Rather than try and re-invent the wheel...
I have a solution that includes a number of projects including; winform, web, and mobile clients. I also have a separate class for my reports. I also have abstracted interfaces for business logic, and also others for business objects and data access. Nothing really unusual here.
What I am looking to do is provide my users with a catalogue of reports, which will be displayed to them via a treeview control grouped by headings (parent nodes). I've considered these possible implementations:
Does anyone have any example implementations of any of these? If so, please post some examples.
Much appreciated!
Paul
Rather than try and re-invent the wheel...
I have a solution that includes a number of projects including; winform, web, and mobile clients. I also have a separate class for my reports. I also have abstracted interfaces for business logic, and also others for business objects and data access. Nothing really unusual here.
What I am looking to do is provide my users with a catalogue of reports, which will be displayed to them via a treeview control grouped by headings (parent nodes). I've considered these possible implementations:
- Using a database in which I built two tables that include a Report table and a ReportGroup table. This can be used to build the treeview control on the form. Doing this would allow me to control what reports are made available to specific customers.
- Through reflection, iterate through the report classes within the report assembly, and then build the treeview using the attributes of each found report class.
- Build a custom config file that does the same as the above.
Does anyone have any example implementations of any of these? If so, please post some examples.
Much appreciated!
Paul