How to get Data from Winforms TextBoxes at Runtime

[Daniel]

Hi, am new to telerik and programing in general, i need help in understanding how i can obtain fields from a datareader or text box in winforms and have the telerik report that i built as a class libraray access the data or the text at runtime. My problem is because they are built as seperate parts, i cant seem to figure out how to refer the result runtime data or text to appear in the the report, any help will be greatly appreciated

[Peter]

Hello Daniel,

Once you prepare your report definition and add reference to the reports' class library. You can access the report definition and set up an ObjectDataSource Component. Any of the following data sources can be assigned to the DataSource property of the ObjectDataSource component:

• Any component that implements IEnumerable , including System.Array , IList , ICollection , and BindingSource
• Any component that implements IListSource, including DataTable, DataSet and DataView
• IDbDataAdapter, including SqlDataAdapter and OleDbDataAdapter
• System.Type which represents the type of the business object

Check out the following code snippet:

public MainForm()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    var report = new ReportCatalog();

    // Creating and configuring the ObjectDataSource component:
    Telerik.Reporting.ObjectDataSource objectDataSource = new Telerik.Reporting.ObjectDataSource();
    objectDataSource.DataSource = typeof(Products); // Specifying the business object type
    objectDataSource.DataMember = "GetProducts"; // Specifying the name of the data object method

    // Assigning the ObjectDataSource component to the DataSource property of the report.
    report.DataSource = objectDataSource;

    // Assigning the report to the report viewer.
    reportViewer1.Report = report;
}

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    this.reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
}

Additionally you may find useful How to: Bind to a BusinessObject help article.

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Daniel]

Thanks for the reply, will try out what you've suggested and get back to you.