Hi,
One of the things I am interested in, is this reporting tools ability to deal with data that is in a dataset. I can see from the documentation that it supports dataset, but so does Crystal reports, it just does it in a bad way (IMHO)
I have an existing application, all the data comes from a SQL server or VistaDB database.
I want to be able to feed this data to the report. I don't want the report engine to have to connect to the database and get the data itself. It should be able to use a dataset that I have already prepared in my code base.
That just leaves the question on how to design the report. I don't have a problem connecting to the sql server or vista db at design time to access the data structure for design purposes. However I want at run time to replace the design time datasource with the dataset in my application. This is where Crystal gets to hard, as it always seems to want to hang onto the design time datasource connection details, and you end up having to have the crystal report engine do its own connection and data selection.
Is this easy to do in your tool? Can you provide a code sample on how this is done ?
I would expect to simply be able to say telerikReport.datasource = ds.tables(0)...... and any design time connection information is destroyed..
One of the things I am interested in, is this reporting tools ability to deal with data that is in a dataset. I can see from the documentation that it supports dataset, but so does Crystal reports, it just does it in a bad way (IMHO)
I have an existing application, all the data comes from a SQL server or VistaDB database.
I want to be able to feed this data to the report. I don't want the report engine to have to connect to the database and get the data itself. It should be able to use a dataset that I have already prepared in my code base.
That just leaves the question on how to design the report. I don't have a problem connecting to the sql server or vista db at design time to access the data structure for design purposes. However I want at run time to replace the design time datasource with the dataset in my application. This is where Crystal gets to hard, as it always seems to want to hang onto the design time datasource connection details, and you end up having to have the crystal report engine do its own connection and data selection.
Is this easy to do in your tool? Can you provide a code sample on how this is done ?
I would expect to simply be able to say telerikReport.datasource = ds.tables(0)...... and any design time connection information is destroyed..