We have added a great new feature to our reporting offering in an upcoming minor release (
v2011 vol 1.6): a custom print preview screen!
Now, instead of showing a report preview full-screen by calling the PrintPreview.Show() method as before, you can add a specialized screen to your application, …
… and in the body of its Activated() method call, associate the screen with the required XtraReport instance.
namespace LightSwitchApplication {
public partial class ReportPreviewScreen {
partial void ReportPreviewScreen_Activated() {
// Assign the name of the report, which you want to preview in this screen.
this.ReportTypeName = "LightSwitchApplication.XtraReport1";
}
}
}
The report will now appear in a separate tab (as opposed to full screen):
In the above screenshot, you may have noticed the new Parameters button being added to the report preview toolbar – a subject of our next blog post.
As always, if you have any questions and/or comments, please do let us know!