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Improved Parameter Support for Reports

There were a number of gems recently added to our already fabulous reporting suite. One of the interesting ones was improved parameter support. Previously one could only create and expose parameters over integral types. A great example is filtering a...

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3 August 2012

LightSwitch Reporting - Showing Report Preview for Individual Records

This blog post provides a walk-through for the process of integrating XtraReports into your LightSwitch application to show a report preview for individual data records. To solve this task, do the following. 1. Start a new LightSwitch application or open...

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9 September 2011

Accessing the Report Preview Model in LightSwitch

In this blog post I will explain another small feature of XtraReports for LightSwitch: the ability to access the ReportPreviewModel from code. For example, I will show how you can provide custom editors for report parameters in a LightSwitch application...

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20 July 2011

Filtering Report Data using LightSwitch Query Parameters

In the next minor release ( v2011 vol 1.6 ), XtraReports will provide the capability to filter your report's data on the server-side by utilizing LightSwitch queries. This blog demonstrates this functionality. After adding a query to your application...

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15 July 2011

Silverlight Reporting - Accessing Subreports' Parameters

Here is a brief overview of a small new feature we'll introduce to help simplify use of subreport parameters in Silverlight. In previous versions, accessing client-side subreport parameters when using nested subreports was inconvenient. The ReportPreviewModel...

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8 July 2011

Filtering Report Data on the Server

I was recently made aware of a great suggestion involving filtering reports on the server side. Lets spend a minute looking into how to do this! Obviously situations will vary, but the general idea should be about the same when using TableAdapters. Adding...

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4 July 2011

Document Map and Parameter Support in WPF and Silverlight Report Viewer (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

We’re adding support for report parameters and document map (generated by report bookmarks) to our WPF and Silverlight reporting tools. Take a look: These new features, available in both WPF and Silverlight, recognize the native support for parameters...

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29 October 2010

Improved support for Complex Type Parameters and FilterString (coming in v2010 vol 2)

In my previous post, we saw how report parameters and the FilterString editor had improved support for enum types . Let’s complicate matters a bit more by changing one of the enums to an actual class: 1: public enum Gender 2: { 3: Male, 4: Female 5: ...

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19 October 2010

Improved support for enums in report parameters and FilterString (coming in v2010 vol 2)

One of the interesting features of our reporting tools is the ability to manipulate report parameters at run-time and at design-time (for both the developer AND the client). A neat little feature that is coming up in v2010 vol 2 is support for custom...

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18 October 2010