I was going through your Walk-Through for developing a Telerik report (Q1 2008) when I noticed there is no template provided for Visual RPG. We've been using your RAD Controls Suite for the past couple of years with no problems and would like to use the Reporting solution.
Can you provide us with a template for use with Visual RPG for VS 2005 or offer some assistance in developing one? We are developing using Webforms.
Thanks you
Can you provide us with a template for use with Visual RPG for VS 2005 or offer some assistance in developing one? We are developing using Webforms.
Thanks you
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Hello Keith,
Telerik Reporting is a standard .NET component that does not differ from the standard ones. So you should be able to find our template in the general project items category section where all the other installed templates are.
If we're missing something out - please provide more information on Visual RPG and why the template should differ and in what way.
Sincerely yours,
Steve
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Telerik Reporting is a standard .NET component that does not differ from the standard ones. So you should be able to find our template in the general project items category section where all the other installed templates are.
If we're missing something out - please provide more information on Visual RPG and why the template should differ and in what way.
Sincerely yours,
Steve
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answered on 03 Jul 2008, 03:33 PM
Visual RPG does not ship as part of Visual Studio. It is an additional programming language written and supported by ASNA. It installs inside VS2005 and we set up projects and solutions in the same manner as VB, C#, or J#. Visual RPG was developed for us RPG programmers, so that we could develop .NET applications using a language very similar to IBM's RPG.
Since Visual RPG uses VS2005's tools and resources, we are able to incorporate your RAD Controls suite into our applications the same as a developer using the standard VS languages and I have no doubt your Reporting tool will work as well.
Our only issue is that we can't utilize one of your standard templates to get started generating reports because we're using a non-standard VS language. Since you use C# to develop we know you can't just write or convert a template for our use, but we would be interested in working with you to develop one for Visual RPG.
We like your Reporting tool as an alternative to Business Objects' product because it would be must cheaper to deploy for our customers. We think other Visual RPG developers would be interested in using this solution if a template could be made available.
Thank you,
Since Visual RPG uses VS2005's tools and resources, we are able to incorporate your RAD Controls suite into our applications the same as a developer using the standard VS languages and I have no doubt your Reporting tool will work as well.
Our only issue is that we can't utilize one of your standard templates to get started generating reports because we're using a non-standard VS language. Since you use C# to develop we know you can't just write or convert a template for our use, but we would be interested in working with you to develop one for Visual RPG.
We like your Reporting tool as an alternative to Business Objects' product because it would be must cheaper to deploy for our customers. We think other Visual RPG developers would be interested in using this solution if a template could be made available.
Thank you,
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Hello Keith,
We are glad to know that you prefer Telerik Reporting engine and will gladly help you to create an item template for the Visual RPG projects. Unfortunately we have no experience with this programming language, but we can guide you in creating and deploying the report item templates.
Telerik Report is e general .NET class and by default Telerik Reporting comes with item templates for C# and VB.NET (a basic knowledge of any of these two languages will help you understand and create your own Report templates easier).
You can find the Telerik Report item templates under your Visual Studio install directory:
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We are glad to know that you prefer Telerik Reporting engine and will gladly help you to create an item template for the Visual RPG projects. Unfortunately we have no experience with this programming language, but we can guide you in creating and deploying the report item templates.
Telerik Report is e general .NET class and by default Telerik Reporting comes with item templates for C# and VB.NET (a basic knowledge of any of these two languages will help you understand and create your own Report templates easier).
You can find the Telerik Report item templates under your Visual Studio install directory:
- C#: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Telerik_Reporting_Q1_2008_SP1.zip
- VB.NET: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VisualBasic\Telerik_Reporting_Q1_2008_SP1.zip
- Creating Item Templates - describes how to locate and organize the item templates, and two ways to create them - through the Visual Studio's Export Template Wizard or manually.
- Template Parameters - describes the parameters used in the VS templates.
- Visual Studio 2005: Create Reusable Project And Item Templates For Your Development Team - MSDN article that describes the architecture of the Visual Studio project and item templates.
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answered on 25 Jul 2008, 02:51 PM
I've been working on translating the VB Reporting template in ItemTemplates into Visual RPG. I'd like to believe I'm getting close to getting it working. However, I've got a compilation error that is puzzling me.
In my code, when I try to create a new instance of the ReportItemBase(), I'm getting an error that tells me "type Telerik.Reporting.ReportItemBase is abstract. Objects of this type cannot be instantiated directly."
I've included the VB code for the line below.
Me.Items.AddRange(New Telerik.Reporting.ReportItemBase() {Me.PageHeaderSection1, Me.DetailSection1, Me.PageFooterSection1})
Can anyone tell me what I might be missing? I'm pretty sure I've translated the code correctly, and I'm using "Imports Telerik.Reporting.Drawing"
I'd appreciate any help you can provide that can point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Keith
In my code, when I try to create a new instance of the ReportItemBase(), I'm getting an error that tells me "type Telerik.Reporting.ReportItemBase is abstract. Objects of this type cannot be instantiated directly."
I've included the VB code for the line below.
Me.Items.AddRange(New Telerik.Reporting.ReportItemBase() {Me.PageHeaderSection1, Me.DetailSection1, Me.PageFooterSection1})
Can anyone tell me what I might be missing? I'm pretty sure I've translated the code correctly, and I'm using "Imports Telerik.Reporting.Drawing"
I'd appreciate any help you can provide that can point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Keith
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Hi Keith,
I am not familiar with Visual RPG programming language, so I can only explain what this line of code does. It creates an array of ReportItemBase objects with three items - the page header, the detail and the page footer sections. For more information please see Overview of Arrays in Visual Basic.
All the best,
Svetoslav
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I am not familiar with Visual RPG programming language, so I can only explain what this line of code does. It creates an array of ReportItemBase objects with three items - the page header, the detail and the page footer sections. For more information please see Overview of Arrays in Visual Basic.
All the best,
Svetoslav
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