databinding to a Web Service

[Crafty]

Hi there,

In the features section of telerik reporting it states the following:

"You can databind Telerik Reporting to Business Objects, XML, Web Services and any ADO.NET datasource..."

Can you direct me to some documentation on how to connect to a Web Service and then use the results of that web service with your reporting tools? As i can't find anything in the help file i downloaded.

Thanks

Dave

[Crafty]

Also, if you could point me in the direction of the documentation of how to connect to an XML file, that would also be of benefit.

Thanks

Dave

[Steve]

Hi Crafty,

The list of available and supported datasources for the reports is available here: Connecting Data to a Report. Using web services as datasource is no different than binding this data to a standard asp:DataGrid/asp:GridView. Here are a couple of helpful articles that elaborate on using web.services in .NET:

• http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetwebservices/DotNetWebServices.asp
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t745kdsh.aspx

To use XML as a report datasource, you can load the XML into a DataTable and assign the DataTable to the report DataSource property. You can find implementations of this in any of these articles:

• http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367396
• http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/17/10017717/convert-xml-to-datatable.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fx29c3yd.aspx

Greetings,
Steve
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[Crafty]

Thanks for the info.

One last question.

Is there a Report Designer that can be used on ASP.NET by the end user?

[Steve]

Hello Crafty,

End user designer for the user is not yet available. It is logged in our features list, but we cannot provide a time estimate when it would be introduced at this time.

All the best,
Steve
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