It is our pleasure to announce the availability of Beta 1 of telerik Reporting. Based on the feedback we got from the CTP versions, we managed to improve the product and enhance its feature set.

Here is a list of the more important changes we have done in Beta 1:

1. Added three new report items:
- Subreport
- Panel
- Shape (lines, polygons, stars, arrows, cross).

2. Added a number of report item events
- Item Added/Removed
- Item Data Binding/Data Bound
- Item Begin/End Render
- Report NeedDataSource
- Report Begin/End Render
- Begin/End Render Report Page

3. Introduced new processing model

4. Design time improvements
- Style Builder

5. Documentation is now included

6. Added a number of new examples

7. Added VisualBasic.NET version of the sample projects

Download now!

Your feedback on Beta1 will be appreciated through the telerik Reporting beta Forum!

You can learn more on the upcoming Reporting tool at http://www.telerik.com/reporting

Sincerely yours,
the telerik team

Does this reporting tool allow you to use recurse through data.  In SQL Reporting Services you can create a report and pass it some IDs and it will recurse through your data and do the sums for each part.  Would you say this reporting tool would at least equal what SQL Reporting Services can do?

What is the status of this? I am testing the vb demo solution and no images are printing, say in the business card report or the simple report, and likely all the others. I exported to pdf and simply get the "No Image Available" moniker..

A simple adjustment to the vb demo solution can help novice coders with getting starting testing the new beta: remove the absolute reference to the ReportLibrary.dll in the web bin, replace it with a project reference. Then rename the output assembly to simply ReportLibrary.dll instead of VB.ReportLibrary.dll to match the original intent. This will allow us to tinker with the demo reports, compile and see the end results immediately in the demo solution..  Cheers, drew..

The ability to capture an exported pdf file and add it to an email would be extremely helpful!

Does anyone know how to create org charts on demand with drag and drop features?  Thanks.

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}