We use Reporting (6.1.12.820) together with a Silverlight 5 project so we built a WCF Reporting Service. The documentation of Telerik Reporting shows how to add a Project DataSource by adding a Component and configure its parameters. However in a WCF Service Project I can't find no Component in the "Add new item" dialog of VS 2010.
What I did was I added a normal class, deriving it from EntityDataSource and compiled the project. Then clicked "Configure Data Source"; a new method "InitializeComponent" gets added to the class however the method is never called. Then I added a second class "classname.designer.cs" and moved the "InitializeComponent" method to this designer class. At least the Data Explorer now shows all fields when the (grey) Designer Page is selected, but when adding the datasource to a Report no fields are displayed at all.
This ends with the big question: how to add a project data source to a WCF Reporting Service?
Regards
Neils
What I did was I added a normal class, deriving it from EntityDataSource and compiled the project. Then clicked "Configure Data Source"; a new method "InitializeComponent" gets added to the class however the method is never called. Then I added a second class "classname.designer.cs" and moved the "InitializeComponent" method to this designer class. At least the Data Explorer now shows all fields when the (grey) Designer Page is selected, but when adding the datasource to a Report no fields are displayed at all.
This ends with the big question: how to add a project data source to a WCF Reporting Service?
Regards
Neils
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Hi Neils,
As noted in the Creating a Simple Report and Solution Structure help articles, you should create a regular (windows forms) class library to hold the reports and anything related to them including project data sources. Then you can reference this class library in your actual WCF Service application.
Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team
As noted in the Creating a Simple Report and Solution Structure help articles, you should create a regular (windows forms) class library to hold the reports and anything related to them including project data sources. Then you can reference this class library in your actual WCF Service application.
Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team
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