Filtering Report Data using LightSwitch Query Parameters

DevExpress Data Blog
15 July 2011

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…

Adding LightSwitch Query

…you can define a parameter to be used in its filtering criterion, …

LightSwitch queries in XtraReports

Now all you need to do is bind to the query in the report

Binding XtraReport to LightSwitch Query

... and the rest is taken care of automatically.

Passing parameters to LightSwitch reports

Once the application is run, the Parameters panel of the report's Print Preview will be enabled so that you can pass values to the query parameter which then re-creates the report document.

Passing parameters to XtraReports in LightSwitch

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