Creating reports by name

[Bob Bruce]

Is there a way I can create a new instance of a rport using a variable containing the report name, such as:

rpt = new Telerik.Reporting.Report strRptName

We want to allow users to select reports for a report book and I would like to pass this data to the viewer as a list of report names.  Possible?

[Steve]

Hi Bob Bruce,

As you might probably know, the Report property of the viewer expects the assembly qualified name of the Report type. Thus in order to instantiate a certain report from its name, you should construct the assembly qualified name (e.g. Report="ClassLibrary1.Report1, ClassLibrary1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null") first and then pass that to the Report property of the viewer or add it to a report book e.g.:

string aqn = String.Format("ClassLibrary1.{0}, ClassLibrary1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null", DropDownList1.SelectedItem);
Type reportType = Type.GetType(aqn);
IReportDocument report = (IReportDocument)Activator.CreateInstance(reportType);
this.ReportViewer1.Report = report;

Kind regards,
Steve
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[Bob Bruce]

Thanks.  In trying this out, I may have misunderstood something.  My class library is Named BobsReportLibrary, and the report I want to call is named rptPartsList.  Can you give me an example using those names:
      
       Dim agn as string = string.empty
       agn= ????

Thanks again.