We are unable to use the report builder in visual studio for a .net 8 core project
If we use the standalone builder, we can not find out how to load the data from class / model.
We were expecting the external to be able to point to the build / dll and select the appropiate view model
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Hello, Dale,
We already have a public feature request for bringing such design time experience in Visual Studio. Here is feedback item for your reference: Make Visual Studio designer work with .NET Core (a.k.a. SDK-style) projects.
As you can see, we have a serious demand for this item. Please have in mind that this functionality directly depends on Microsoft and we put huge efforts in introducing the best possible end-user experience to our clients. However, the design time implementation didn't go as smoothly as we wished following the new design-time architecture introduced by Microsoft in Visual Studio. I would encourage you to click the Follow button to get notified for any status changes.
Meanwhile, the Standalone Report Designer is the recommended solution for designing your reports. Indeed, it is outside the Visual Studio IDE (which is more comfortable during the development process). But it gives you a powerful arsenal for designing reports. Another approach is shown in the How to use Visual Studio Report Designer to edit CS Reports in .NET Projects KB article.
As to the question about using a Class Library to bind the ObjectDataSource to business objects, I would encourage you to have a look at the following help articles which are quite useful on this topic:
Steps on how to add ObjectDataSource in a report designed in the Standalone Designer
Binding ObjectDataSource Component to a BusinessObject
Connecting the ObjectDataSource Component to a Data Source
I hope you find this information helpful. Please, let me know if there is anything else I can assist you with.
Regards,
Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Principal
Progress Telerik