Silverlight Reporting

[Gregory]

I’m confused about how the reporting works for Silverlight.    Is the viewer the only thing available on the Silverlight side?    I have data in my Silverlight application that resides on the client side, but the Telerik report seems to be created on the server side (ASP.Net).    Does that mean I need to push my client data (in the form of a List, Dictionary, or

SortableCollectionView)

 

 

to the server side (probably using a WCF service) to view it in Silverlight.   In other words can the Silverlight viewer look at a Silverlight report or must it always be a report created in straight ASP.Net. 

[Peter]

Hello Gregory,

Currently the reporting engine is not compatible with Silverlight and it requires .NET framework to perform its operations, in other words the reports reside on the server and you cannot process them in your Silverlight application directly. Here comes the Telerik Reporting Service WCF service to enable the remote access to the Telerik Reporting Engine. The Reporting Service acts as a communication interface between the client programs and the report server. This is necessary because Silverlight has some limitations that will limit the report engine capabilities. Due to this we have decided to keep working under .NET to have more feature rich reporting engine without restrictions caused by the platform. Once Silverlight becomes more mature we will consider porting the engine to Silverlight.

You may find useful the Silverlight Report Viewer help article.

Best wishes,
Peter
the Telerik team