DevForce Community Forum : Reporting http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2009 : Reporting Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:52:14 -700 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:03:02 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1154 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Reporting : This is a tough issue for the... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4160#4160 Author: BenHayat
Subject: 1154
Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 6:03am

This is a tough issue for the third party vendors to offer reporting for SL. Here is my take.
Developing a full fledged reporting is a big job and depends heavily on text engine. Currently, SL doesn't have the best text engine, however that's something MS is working to make better. Secondly, for third party vendors to invest into this product, there must be some solid proof of "Return of Investment". If MS is already working on a reporting engine, then it's hard for smaller vendors to compete with that, and that's why no one is taking a shot at it.

Telerik has a reporting tool to create reports at server side as HTML and save it on the server and they just released 2009 Q1 for SL that also has an HTML placeholder where you can display HTML content. With this combination you can create your report and show it as HTML and have the user print the HTML page. It gets the job done, but requires lots of work keeping track of the reports per user and making sure they're deleted from server after the report has been printed ot viewed. But better than nothing.

Hope this helps!
]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:03:02 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4160#4160 Reporting : I'll check that out, nice... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4121#4121 Author: Alan Bourke
Subject: 1154
Posted: 19-Mar-2009 at 1:25pm

I'll check that out, nice one.]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:25:17 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4121#4121 Reporting : Couldn't agree more about... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4118#4118 Author: bbakermai
Subject: 1154
Posted: 19-Mar-2009 at 1:07pm

Couldn't agree more about dearth of solutions for reporting. A few months ago, Chris Anderson posted a nice series over on Silverlightshow.com (LOB app Parts 1-6). In Part 6, he showed how to hook up RDL files (without Reporting Services) to spit out a PDF (just requires the ubiquitous Adobe plugin) in the same window by hiding the Silverlight App and revealing the Report div. Pretty sharp if you can get the kinds of reports you need with the VS report designer. I'm sure it could be extended with some UI to control parameters (date ranges, etc.).

Bob Baker
MicroApplications, Inc.
Orlando CodeCamp 2009 - March 28th

]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:07:03 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4118#4118 Reporting : Well, I'm looking forward... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1154&PID=4116#4116 Author: Alan Bourke
Subject: 1154
Posted: 19-Mar-2009 at 9:42am

Well, I'm looking forward to getting stuck into the new Silverlight Edition for sure, looked very impressive in the Mix 09 video.

Many Silverlight LOB applications will require strong reporting - however the only real tool I can see out there is Report Sharp-Shooter, which is, y'know, 500 rats. To me this is a fairly major hole in the whole RIA arena, what do others think ?


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