Empty Datasource and No Connection String

[Paul]

Good afternoon,

After my initial problem here: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/error-adding-new-telerik-report-to-solution.aspx I have finally gotten around to trying to add a new Telerik report to an existing WPF .NET 4 application I have written.

The problem I now have is that the DataSource wizard doesn't seem to pick up any of my datasets or entity models. If I tell the report wizard to create a new one, it doesn't even pick up my connection string from the project settings and I have to manually add it. 

Once the connection string is added, the next screen does not show any of the objects in my SQL database.

Am I way off here with what I should be doing or do I perhaps have a problem that is / isn't related to my original problem?

I'm really disappointed that I can't get this working yet but I'm afraid I will not be purchasing this Telerik reporting option until I am up and running correctly despite I think that it looks like the best reporting option available for my WPF applications.

Thank you,

Paul Pitchford.

[Steve]

Hello Paul,

Thank you for your interest in Telerik Reporting and up to your inquiry.

It is not clear how you bind the report. We have an EntityDataSource Component that is designed specifically to bind to ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
For more information refer to:

• Connecting to an Entity Data Model with the EntityDataSource component
• Retrieving data from an Entity Data Model with the EntityDataSource component

In order to use the Report Designer and the available Explorers and Wizards i.e. have your data available in the report designer, the Entity Data Model should be located in a separate project. The connectionString to the database should be copied to the config file of the reports project for the Data Explorer and Preview to work. Any extension methods should be located in the same project as the model.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team