Microsoft Report Viewer 2008

Direct Reports (Brian Welcker's Weblog) - Younger Than Yesterday (ReportViewer in VS 2008)

"As most of you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2008 is now available. What you might not have noticed is a new version of the ReportViewer control and local /embedded report editing experience. Included with VS 2008 are the following new features:

Design-time: 

• New Report Projects: Two new project templates for quickly creating reporting applications. When you create a new Report Application project, you get a blank report (.rdlc) and a form with a ReportViewer control bound to the report.
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Documentation for the new ReportViewer is here. The new version runs SxS with the VS 2005 version. This means to use the new controls, you will need to change the references in your project to use the new ReportViewer control.  We will be writing a KB article about how to do that soon.

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If you are going to ship the new ReportViewer with your application, we now have an updated version of the redistributable to the web. The download page is here. For the ClickOnce scenario, the ReportViewer.exe  FWLink is also live. "

Reporting is coming to my work world soon than later so this will come in handy...

 

Update #1 11/27/2007 @ 10:51AM PST:

Microsoft Downloads - ReportViewer Samples for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

"Visual Studio 2008 includes ReportViewer controls that you can use to add rich data reporting to Windows forms and ASP.NET applications. This download provides two complete samples so that you can view the control and sample reports in a finished application.

• The RSSNewsReader sample is a Windows form application written in Visual C#. It retrieves data from live news feeds and presents that data in a report. The report demonstrates how to use parameters to filter the dataset.
• The Web Log Analyzer is a Windows form application written in Visual Basic. It analyzes log files created by Web servers, such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). It includes reports that show statistics on page hits, server activity, and referrals from other sites.

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