Productivity: Reporting

A few weeks ago, the Q3 2010 release made its official appearance. This release marked the addition of various new features across all Telerik products. As with every release, we try our hardest to create video tutorials corresponding to each new product feature. In these videos we generally write the code to some sort of example application. Often we receive requests for this code, so I thought I would save you the trouble of asking and post the code to the Telerik Reporting videos here in this blog entry. Here is a list of all videos related to Telerik Reporting ...

Download ODataSample (C# VS2010) - 167KB Download ODataSample (VB VS2010) - 180KB The Open Data Protocol, also known as OData recently has gained a lot of popularity. That is why we decided to demonstrate how to connect and consume an existing OData feed from Telerik Reporting with the help of WCF Data Services. For the sake of this example we will connect to the Northwind sample database exposed as an OData service with the following root URL: http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc. Let's start by adding a service reference to the Northwind data service to our report class library - we use the above service URL for this purpose: Visual Studio creates a reference to the service...

Due to the rising popularity of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) e.g. Silverlight applications, the developers get more dependent on services for coordinating application logic between the middle tier and the presentation tier and the logical question raises how to use an already working WCF RIA Service as a datasource for Telerik Report. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same business data access logic for clients other than Silverlight. For example to a WPF, WinForms or WebForms application. Thus we have made some tests locally and decided to share our observations in this post. Prerequisites: We will examine the WCF...

Earlier today, I presented a webinar about Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting. Thanks to everyone who attended and I hope you all learned something new. If you were unable to attend, the webinar has been recorded and is now available on Telerik TV. I've posted the link below. An Overview of Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting The latest release of Telerik Reporting features two completely new data source components, the SqlDataSource component and the ObjectDataSource component. These components make it easy to bind to Business Objects or ADO.NET supported databases. Once a ...

So I've been spending some time lately learning to use one of the powerful new features of .NET 4.0, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Using MEF, I thought it would be neat to create an application that allows you to dynamically load Telerik Reports from an assembly without having to recompile your application. Here is how I set it up. Contracts When setting this application up, I wanted to be able to define contracts on my reports so that I could import them into a ReportManager class when the application starts up. However, I didn't want my report objects to be ...