Report DataSource & Display in one

[Luke]

Good Afternoon,

I am currently trialing the Reporting DevTool with a view of purchasing it providing it can acheive what i am trying to achieve.  I have been having a look on the forums and the Help files for the reporting to try and solve an issue that i am having, however at the minute i am unable to find a complete solution.  Hence the post in here.

Basically what i have is a report that i have designed and is previeving exactly as i would expect it to in the .Net design viewer in VS2012.  However what i am trying to achieve is changing the datasource at runtime for that report before displaying it.  I have found out the following links:

http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/programmatic-creating-report.html
http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/winforms-report-viewer-embedding.html

which i believe detail what i am trying to acheive however when i try and put them together i dont seem to get anything and i cant set the report to open in the viewer.  Could someone please provide me with some advice and guidance as to how i can achieve this. 

Thank you in advanced

Luke Frost

[Peter]

Hi Luke,

Generally there are different approaches for changing the datasource depending on the source of the datasource:

• use your own data layer to retrieve the appropriate data and databind the report with ObjectDataSource component;
• set the datasource in the NeedDataSource event;
• change the datasource when initializing the report instance for the report source.

Give it a try and if you need additional assistance we will appreciate if you elaborate further on your scenario.

Regards,
Peter
Telerik