How to determine if a report is empty

[Stefan]

I am creating bulk reports by generating reports programatically and then directly saving them to files on disk without opening.

I would like to skip saving reports which have no data in them but I need a way to check if the report is empty.

What property in the Telerik.Reporting.Report object should I check in order to do this?

The .Items property seems to include column headings so its of no use to me. I found the .Bindings collection and thought about .Bindings.Any() but I cannot find any documentation on it so I am not sure if that is an adequate solution.

[Peter]

Hello Stefan,

In the report definition such property is not available. However you can easily extend it as shown in the following code snippet:

class MyReport : Telerik.Reporting.Report
{
public bool HaveData { get; private set; }

void textBox1_ItemDataBound(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   this.HaveData = true;
}
}

The idea is that the textBox will be databound only if data is available.

Greetings,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Stefan]

Thanks this worked.

To anyone reading this, I ended up adding my event to the ItemDataBound of the "detail" section of the report rather than a specific textbox in order to make it a little more generic.