Tip: Poulating Fields with Custom Objects

[John]

I recently ran in to a problem using the reporting tools where I had a custom object with no blank constructor. In order to make the reports dynamic and change the report based on some sort of id supplied I came up with the following solution.

Explanation of Process:

Object Car is pulled from the database
Fields of object car are placed in to fields of report

    public partial class CarReport : Report {
        public CarReport() {
        }

        public CarReport(int id){
            Car c = GetFromDB.GetCar(23);
            txtName.Value = c.Name;
            txtType.Value = c.Type;
        }
    }


    class GetFromDB {
        public Car GetCar(int id) {
            //Query Datbase and parse info

            return new Car("FastCar", "Porsche");
        }

    }

    class Car {
        private string strName;
        private string strType;

        public Car(string Name, string Type) {
            strName = Name;
            strType = Type;
        }

        public string Name { get { return strName; } }
        public string Type { get { return strType; } }
    }

So by doing the following and creating an instance of the Report, binding it to the report viewer, you can have any object bound to any field on the report. I hope this helps.

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi John,

Thank you for participating in the Telerik Reporting Forum Discussions. Keep up the good work.

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Sincerely yours,
Ross
the Telerik team

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