Productivity: Reporting

As many of you know, Telerik Reporting is incredibly versatile. Using it, you can create a single report, then take that one report and display it in Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, or ASP.NET using one of our four available report viewers. Recently, however, I've noticed that people are interested in exporting reports without even displaying a report viewer at all. I am happy to let you know that Telerik Reporting indeed supports this exact scenario. I suppose you could consider it a "5th" way of viewing reports if you wanted. Setting up Telerik Reporting to export reports programmatically is actually quite ...

I was very happy to see feedback from several of you who are very happy about the latest additions to Telerik Reporting! As promised, here are the demo projects I utilized during the webinar. Please note that there are a few requirements to get them up and running successfully. I've listed those below. Requirements Telerik Reporting Q1 2011 (Download Trial) Open XML SDK 2.0 (Download) Windows Azure SDK (Download) Projects Reporting Q1 2011 Demos Cloud Reports Demo Thanks again for attending if you were able to make it to the live webinar! If ...

Introduction A while back, someone pointed me to this news article containing a Google Documents based spreadsheet with information about UK Inflation. Since I typically spend a lot of time working with Telerik Reporting, I thought it would be fun to create my own report based on this data. Accessing Google Data from .NET One of the cool things about Google is that they are a very data oriented company. Pretty much all of their services are centered on storing, organizing, and maintaining different types of data. They make this data extremely easy to access through the use of ...

Download SqlAzure.EntityFramework (C# VS2010) - 160KB In the previous blog post from the series we discussed how to connect Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database using Open Access ORM with the OpenAccessDataSource component. Now it is time to demonstrate how to perform this with another very popular ORM – Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource component. For the sake of this example we assume an existing SQL Azure account with the Adventure Works sample database already installed. Let’s start with a new ADO.NET Entity Data Model. To connect to the SQL Azure database specify the server name and the login credentials of your SQL Azure account, then choose the AdventureWorksLTAZ2008R2 sample database as shown below: To create the entity model,...

Download SqlAzure.OpenAccess (C# VS2010) - 163KB In the previous blog post from the series we discussed how to connect Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database using ADO.NET with the help of the SqlDataSource component. Now we will demonstrate how to accomplish the same task with Open Access ORM utilizing the OpenAccessDataSource component. For the sake of this example we assume an existing SQL Azure account with the Adventure Works sample database already installed. Let’s start with a new Open Access domain model – the Open Access ORM Data Wizard starts. Choose Microsoft SQL Azure as a backend for the database connection and specify the connection string to your SQL Azure database as shown in the screenshot below: Choose the following tables...