Telerik Silverlight RadChart in Reporting

[Aarti]

Hi,

Our application is using Telerik Silverlight RadChart control on various pages and has some custom logic around chart display. I want to create reports using Telerik Silverlight Reporting and would like to reuse the existing logic used in Silverlight application to generate charts.

I noticed RadChart and Reporting Chart have different structures.

Is there a way I can re-use existing chart generation logic in reporting?

Thanks,
Aarti

[Steve]

Hi Aarti,

You can't really re-use the Silverlight chart in Telerik Report, because the chart is on the Silverlight client, while the reports reside on the server. The remote access to the Telerik Reporting Engine is enabled through the Telerik Reporting Service which acts as a communication interface between the client programs and the report server.

Regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Moldo]

Hi, Steve.
I've looked over Telerik Reporting (TR) documentation and I've found that TR needs RAD Controls for Silverlight in order to work in a Silverlight application. If we cannot use the functionality from RADChart ( which belongs to RAD Controls 4 SL ) then why do we need to buy a separate RAD Controls package ?
In order to build Sliverlight applications will not Telerik Reporting be enough ?

[Steve]

Hi Moldo,

The Silverlight viewer uses RadControls for Silverlight, but the needed assemblies for it are provided in the shipped Silverlight examples (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Reporting Q2 2011\Examples\CSharp\SilverlightDemo\bin). The RadControls for Silverlight assemblies however can only be used when part of Telerik Reporting, should you be using them for other purpose like taking advantage of RadChart for Silverlight, you should purchase a license for the Silverlight suite. So in short, should you need only a Silverlight reporting tool, you do not need to purchase RadControls for Silverlight.

Best wishes,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Moldo]

Thanks a lot, Steve for your advice.