Reporting WCF in Console App

[Shilpi]

Hi -

 

We have a few telerik reports that are hosted in a silverlight web site. And I am trying to create a console app that would generate and save the reports in PDF formal. When I call "Render", I get the message, "The report can't be created". I am not sure what I would need to do different.

 

Please help.

 

Thanks, Shilpi

[Stef]

Hello Shilpi,

If you are using a Silverlight ReportViewer and Reporting WCF service, reports should be hosted in the Reporting WCF service's project.

At the client you can get rendered report by using a client for the Reporting WCF service - Exporting Report in Silverlight.
At the server you can use a ReportProcessor and another instance of the report to export it and save the bytes in a custom storage - Exporting Report Programmatically.


I hope this helps.

Regards,
Stef
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[Shilpi]

Thank you, everything worked great except when I had to pass in Array parameter.

 

Type 'System.Object[]' with data contract name 'ArrayOfanyType:http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays' is not expected. Consider using a DataContractResolver if you are using DataContractSerializer or add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding them to the list of known types passed to the serializer.

[Stef]

Hi Shilpi,

This is expected. If you want to transfer collections or collection properties, the business objects must be serializable or of known types. You may need to write custom serialization for the business objects to be able to pass them.

For more details, check Serialization and Deserialization (msdn).

Regards,
Stef
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