Productivity: Reporting

The Report templates in Telerik Reporting hold the initial report layout and styling, and allow for creating reports with consistent look and feel. They save time by skipping the repetitive tasks associated with building a new report every time, so that users can focus on the specific requirements of the new report. These tasks may include setting page sizes, connecting to data sources, defining headers and footers (such as adding a logo and page numbers), as well as styling. In Q3 2012 you can create, load, and reuse such report templates in the standalone Report Designer. Creating a Report Template is...

In case you have missed the news, Telerik Reporting is one of the many Telerik products that support the beta version of Visual Studio 11. To use it in VS11 you will just need to download the Q1 2012 Refresh build from your Telerik account (or use the trial link at the bottom) and install it: The installer will register the Telerik assemblies in VS11, and will populate the toolbox with the Telerik Reporting items. Every feature (Report Designer surface, item creation and data binding, report exporting, etc.) has been tested so you can start using Telerik Reporting right away to produce quality reports with...

In a few days, VS11 Beta will be revealed. This release is big for Microsoft, not only from a technological standpoint, but also from the experience it will give developers. The new UI is so substantial, that there is a dedicated post on it in the Visual Studio Blogs: (source) When Microsoft revealed the first ribbon interface back in 2007, there were some speculations that this interface may make it into Visual Studio 2010. Obviously, this did not happen for an logical reason - the ribbon interface is slick, visual, easy to use, but requires more screen estate, and in some cases...

Download Telerik_Reporting_Reset_PageNumber_per_Group (C#) - 4.72 KB In Telerik Reporting, the PageNumber object can only be used in the page header and page footer sections. It contains the current page number and its value is increased with one for every new page. In some scenarios, it is useful to alter the page number based on a condition and the most frequent scenario being asked is resetting the PageNumber after each group. The powerful expression engine of Telerik Reporting allows you to accomplish this easily with the help of page aggregates and tiny bit of code. Basically the idea is to check what is the last group on a page and if it...

SharePoint provides types and members in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client namespace for accessing SharePoint remotely from a client computer or server. To get started with SharePoint client object model you will need Microsoft.SharePoint.Client and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime assemblies. You can copy these DLLs from the %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\ISAPI folder of the server that runs Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client types you can get access to SharePoint List data. However in order to have design time support (Telerik Reporting Data Explorer, Wizards and Expression editor) with SharePoint as data source, you will need the following SharePointDataSource helper class. This class manages the SharePoint credentials,...