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Download: Sample Code for ReportViewer
Check out sample code that shows how to use Visual Studio 2005's new ReportViewer controls to design and embed custom reports in your projects.
by Roger Jennings

January 11, 2006

.NET developers commonly add data-reporting features to smart-client and Web-based projects. VS 2005's new ReportViewer control and its built-in Report Designer enable smart-client and Web page designers to lay out, format, embed, export, and print interactive reports without running a SQL Server Report Server.

Don't let the scarcity of documentation for the Report Designer and ReportViewer combination dissuade you from considering this useful new control for integrating tabular and crosstab reports, as well as charts and graphs, in your .NET 2.0 WinForms and WebForms projects.

Download this VB 2005 sample code that includes smart-client examples of tabular and crosstab reports generated from the AdventureWorks and Northwind sample databases. (To run the demonstration projects, you need SQL Server 2005 or SQL Express with the AdventureWorks 2005 and Northwind sample databases installed.) The ZIP file features four projects: AWTestWinForm, NWTestWinForm, ReportSmartClient, and ReportWebSite.

For more information, see my VSM article, "Build Client-Side Reports Easily."

About the Author
Roger Jennings is an independent XML Web service and database developer and author. Roger's latest book is Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming (Wrox, ISBN: 076457678X). He's also a Visual Studio Magazine contributing editor and FTPOnline columnist, and manages the OakLeaf Systems XML Web Services demonstration site and Weblog. His Code of Federal Regulations Web services won Microsoft's 2002 .NET Best Horizontal Solution Award. Reach Roger at .