Hi

I started at 06:00 this AM, downloaded and installed the latest Reporting CTP2.   I have spent 5 hours on it today in the hope that this would allow us to replace our old reporting method with this new exciting professional one.

But I have to give up. Took me 3 hours to just get the designer up in  C# demo.

This could be a great new revenue stream and product line for Telerik and would love to use it.

So step one - if you could - please show me how to get a project up in VB - and if possible DNN 4.40 . Then we could get going!

Thanks
Howard

After installing the BETA, I select the examples. They load just fine, however I get an "A project with an Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly". You need to change the startup to the webdemo vs. the class lib in the downloadable files.

Second, you really need better examples to show this product off if you are attempting to compete with Crystal Reports. Maybe I was hoping for more.

RC

This is likely a known issue, but just in case: if you right-click in a band and make it invisible, upon return of its' visibility, any controls within it are gone. I have tried this with various bands, and at least with my bits, this happens.
As well, the ordering of the bands is not yet consistent: the report header should always appears above the page header etc..
Cheers, drew..

I wanted to reflect briefly on my recent reporting tool experiences and make a suggestion to telerik, one that i am sure they already know, but just in case: the reporting tool market is currently dominated by a few products. It seems in each case that one must take a sabbatical and win a lottery to get web-wise with the tool. There are so many convoluted methods and manners needed to get web reports deployed.
The reality of a developers life is that we are inundated with new versions of *everything* we use to develop products for our clients. We don't have the time or luxury to read and study code examples and tomes on all the features of a tool.
If telerik can give us a web reporting tool with a modest $$ attached, with the top 5 use-cases ***clearly*** defined, and have a dead-easy deployment practice, i am all-in.
Case-in-point: every single web report developer that creates local test reports must then deploy to a server, somewhere. Give us a simple connection string property we can set in the load event to let us tell the report where to grab the data. Microsoft's ReportViewer, while a nice bundled tool, makes this simple task a nightmare, with enough searching posts on the web to prove it.
Limit our time to get the first few standard use-case scenarios solved, price it right, especially for those of us doing beta testing for you, and you have our loyalty, regardless of how long the others have been around.
{ok, my ranting is done Ü}

Are you going to incorporate the ability to have a drill down throught the data , as per cyrstal ?

If so I would certainly be interested in this and therefore dropping crystal , which as a company as given me nothing but grief !

Thanks

I need to set the Select SQL at run time. I do it like this.

if (!IsPostBack)
{
MyReportLibrary.testReport myReport = new testReport();
myReport.setAdapter(myAdapter);
this.reportViewer.Report = myReport;
}

But the problem is, that by the page loading, the constructor of testReport (where other connectionstring and Select_SQL are defined) will be called the second time and the properties of
myReport.setAdapter(myAdapter)
will be lost.

Who calls (creates) the myReport again?
I suppose , that it is the reportViewer. The Viewer re-create the class myReport (actually testReport) and so myAdapter will be lost.

How can I set the Adapter outside of the Report ? 

Does Telerik Reporting support XML as a datasource?

I am getting the error message below during installation.  I get the same error when attempting to un-install.  I have Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express installed.  This happened on two computers.

Error 1722.  There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

I'm not sure if telerik was planning on providing some layout templates with reporting, but I ran into a need yesterday that could be perfectly served by reporting with templates.

Basically, it would be great if reporting came with templates for creating the report layout in a format that would print correctly on a number of different label sheets (Avery label sheets are usually used as the defining standard).

For example, in the reporting visual designer, I could select "Create New Report from Template..." and then pick "Mailing Labels (Avery XXXX)" and a new report would be created that would print my data in the correct format to fit a sheet of Mailing Labels. I would layout one "label", bind the report to my datasource, and then the report would "merge" my data when it rendered.

Anybody else out there think this would be useful? Is this doable telerik?

Thanks~

I have WS2005 SP1.  Got error during install when trying to add to toolkit.

Thanks.