The assembly "xxx" is not permitted to be used in an ObjectDataSource

[Scott]

I get this after upgrading to the latest reporting DLL's from RC1. I know this is a breaking change according to the following:

http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/reporting/details/telerik-reporting-r3-2016---upgrade-issues-with-objectdatasource-component

but I do not know where to put the information. I've tried the app.config, web.config but I still get the message. My project is using an HTML5 viewer in a .Net Core view and I just can't quite get it to work properly.

Thank you for any assistance,

Scott

[Stef]

Hello Scott,

Custom configuration settings cannot be read from an XML config file, and JSON config files are not yet supported.

Please modify the ReportsControllerBase implementation (the Reporting REST service) to use a custom resolver - an example of a custom resolver. Then you can set the data items' DataSource properties to directly instantiated data objects.

A hack that can be tested is to add an APP.CONFIG (not a mistake) in the root of the project and the Telerik.Reporting section's declaration and content in it.

Regards,
Stef
Telerik by Progress

[Scott]

Thank you, Stef - with your information on the custom resolver I was able to get it to work.

[Anatoliy]

Adding app.config to project's root level for some reason did not work for me. But ReportResolver customization did work. In ReportsController, ReportFileResolver is replaced by this custom resolver

    public ReportsController(IHostingEnvironment environment)
    {
        var reportsPath =
            Path.Combine(environment.WebRootPath, "Reports");

        ReportServiceConfiguration =
            new ReportServiceConfiguration
            {
                HostAppId = "FACMPPortal",
                Storage = new FileStorage(),
                ReportResolver = new CustomReportResolver(reportsPath), // new ReportFileResolver(reportsPath),
                // ReportSharingTimeout = 0,
                // ClientSessionTimeout = 15,
            };

    }
}

And here is the customized resolver itself. As you can see does nothing except unpackaging a report. Still this resolves "not permitted to be used" issue with an assembly.

public class CustomReportResolver : IReportResolver
    {
        public string ReportsPath { get; private set; }

        public CustomReportResolver(string reportsPath)
        {
            ReportsPath = reportsPath;
        }

        public ReportSource Resolve(string report)
        {
            var reportfile = Path.Combine(ReportsPath, report);
            Report reportInstance = null;

            var reportPackager = new ReportPackager();
            using (var stream = File.OpenRead(reportfile))
            {
                reportInstance = reportPackager.Unpackage(stream);
            }

            return new InstanceReportSource { ReportDocument = reportInstance };
        }
    }