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  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting 201 Topics

    "Reports! We need reports!" ... This is something that's probably heard often in a lot of companies. Well, I am happy to tell you that Telerik Reporting is up to the challenge of providing these reports. Telerik Reporting is an intuitive, easy to use, .NET reporting solution that can easily meet the needs of your company. If you are new to Telerik Reporting and are looking for a good place to start learning about it, you've found it. Over the past few weeks, we've been spending some time putting together several videos explaining the many features included with Telerik Reporting. Here they are... enjoy! Working ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Telerik Reporting WCF Service

    After working a bit with the Silverlight Report Viewer for Telerik Reporting, it seemed only natural to write a quick post to explain how exactly the Reporting WCF Service (located here in the help file) works and how to quickly and easily get started with it. To start with, why do we need a WCF service for Telerik Reporting?  The answer is that we added a Silverlight Report viewer not too long ago, and in order to get information to a Silverlight client application you need to either use a javascript bridge through the webpage hosting the XAP, which is a slightly clunky...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Report Life Cycle in Telerik Reporting

    Have you ever spent a large amount of time designing a Telerik Report only to discover that its output is not entirely what you expected? This is the type of problem that can occur if you don't have a full understanding of the Report Life Cycle. The Report Life Cycle defines what happens and when it happens in Telerik Reporting. Understanding the Life Cycle is crucial to effectively using Telerik Reporting, which is why I plan on spending some time explaining it in detail today.   The diagram in Figure 1 provides a high level overview of the sequence of events ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Show off your reports and shine (Telerik Reporting contest)

    We are running a Reporting case-study contest with cool prizes! Share how Telerik Reporting has helped you in the work you do, what problems/impediments it solved for you, and how Telerik made a difference, and you could win a $500 Amazon gift certificate! For extra exposure of your work, all case studies will be published on our site, and the winner will get the opportunity to publish a video case study of their project on TelerikTV. All you need to do to enter is send a case study on a working Telerik Reporting project that you have developed. The three most interesting case studies...
    May 07, 2025 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Programmatic Initialization of Report Parameter Values in Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer

    Usually one may control the report appearance and the data it displays through report parameters. The Silverlight report viewer, just like the other two, offers built-in user interface that enables end users to interact with the reports. Still there are cases when one may further need to control the report definition according to a custom logic that runs in the client application. However, since we have introduced the Silverlight Report Viewer the greatest challenge our clients have faced is that there is no direct access to the report definition in the Silverlight application.   To provide the ability to specify the parameter...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read