I inherited a VB.NET development effort from a rival company who did not supply any documentation. It used Telerik.Web.UI version 2011.3.1305.40 and we purchased and installed the replacement version 2014.1.4013.40. The newer version broke some of the web pages and reporting pages and we are trying to recover to a point where we can use the Telerik enhanced pages. I manually stepped through the webpages that failed due to the upgrade and changed to old code to meet the new standards and managed to fix most of them. The webpages that still don't work have broken smart tags that lost the databases they were linked to.
The reporting is another issue. We did not get the source Telerik reports and I used the Telerik Reporting Q1 2014 tool to extract the Telerik report definition files from the DLLs of our site. These are readable but not very usefull because they also are missing the links to their associated databases. I was able to correctly link one of the reports to its correct database but now what? I can't export it to a *.vb file to add to Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. How would I return the reports to the VB Solution so they can replace the broken ones on my website? Am I missing a tool? We purchased the full license so if we are missing anything can you supply it?
Attached is a PDF generated from the failing Telerik reporting process from the VB.NET site.
Attached is the sample extracted Telerik report.
The reporting is another issue. We did not get the source Telerik reports and I used the Telerik Reporting Q1 2014 tool to extract the Telerik report definition files from the DLLs of our site. These are readable but not very usefull because they also are missing the links to their associated databases. I was able to correctly link one of the reports to its correct database but now what? I can't export it to a *.vb file to add to Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. How would I return the reports to the VB Solution so they can replace the broken ones on my website? Am I missing a tool? We purchased the full license so if we are missing anything can you supply it?
Attached is a PDF generated from the failing Telerik reporting process from the VB.NET site.
Attached is the sample extracted Telerik report.
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Hello Ron,
The .trdx report definitions don't have to be included in the project. You can only copy them on the server and in code show the reports in report viewer via UriReportSource. This will require you to use the Standalone Report Designer tool to modify the reports if needed.
Converting a .trdx file to a .NET class is not supported and we don't have a tool which can achieve this. Instead, you can create brand new reports in your project and copy/paste the report items from the .trdx files to the new reports using the Standalone Report Designer and the Visual Studio Report Designer tools.
The connection strings are often stored with their names in the report definition and cannot be retrieved if you don't have the application configuration file. You may need to set them all over again.
Regards,
Nasko
Telerik
The .trdx report definitions don't have to be included in the project. You can only copy them on the server and in code show the reports in report viewer via UriReportSource. This will require you to use the Standalone Report Designer tool to modify the reports if needed.
Converting a .trdx file to a .NET class is not supported and we don't have a tool which can achieve this. Instead, you can create brand new reports in your project and copy/paste the report items from the .trdx files to the new reports using the Standalone Report Designer and the Visual Studio Report Designer tools.
The connection strings are often stored with their names in the report definition and cannot be retrieved if you don't have the application configuration file. You may need to set them all over again.
Regards,
Nasko
Telerik
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