I have checked the forums, in particular -
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/set-report-parameter-connection-string.aspx
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/changre-report-connectionstring-at-runtime.aspx
The second link seems to be what I want, In our ui, the user picks what db they want to run the report against, from a dropdown, we can turn that value into a connection string, my issue is that I first started going down the route of adding a parameter to the report, but I cannot cast the silverlight reportviewer.report to my class in the report class library because the library is not silverlight compliant, so then I tried to access the report.datasource - but could not as the report property of the silverlight viewer is a string - please advise as how you would recomend me sending a sql connection string from my front end silverlight ui to the report hosted in a wcf service...
Thanks in advance,
-Deva
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/set-report-parameter-connection-string.aspx
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/changre-report-connectionstring-at-runtime.aspx
The second link seems to be what I want, In our ui, the user picks what db they want to run the report against, from a dropdown, we can turn that value into a connection string, my issue is that I first started going down the route of adding a parameter to the report, but I cannot cast the silverlight reportviewer.report to my class in the report class library because the library is not silverlight compliant, so then I tried to access the report.datasource - but could not as the report property of the silverlight viewer is a string - please advise as how you would recomend me sending a sql connection string from my front end silverlight ui to the report hosted in a wcf service...
Thanks in advance,
-Deva
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Hello Deva,
The reference to the class library holding your reports should be added as reference to your web application hosting the Silverlight project and not directly to the Silverlight project - please refer to the Visual Studio examples provided with the Telerik Reporting installation.
As you have found the hard way, currently there is no report object exposed on the Silverlight client, meaning that the reports reside on the server and the only way to pass data to it from the Silverlight client is to use the report parameters - more info is available in the Programmatic Initialization of Report Parameter Values in Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer.
Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team
The reference to the class library holding your reports should be added as reference to your web application hosting the Silverlight project and not directly to the Silverlight project - please refer to the Visual Studio examples provided with the Telerik Reporting installation.
As you have found the hard way, currently there is no report object exposed on the Silverlight client, meaning that the reports reside on the server and the only way to pass data to it from the Silverlight client is to use the report parameters - more info is available in the Programmatic Initialization of Report Parameter Values in Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer.
Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team