In this article, I will explain all the steps “How to integrate Report viewer control in Window application?”
I have seen many articles about Report Viewer Control of ASP.NET. There was no any completely explaining document about Report Viewer.
1. Create Data Base Table: Firstly create a data base about “StudentDetails” in your data base server. Now time to create table according below structure. And Save below table as tbl_Student.
2. Now create a window application using VS.NET 2010, Go File->New->Project->C# Windows (Left Panel)->Window Form Application . Name of project “ReportGenerators” . Now time to press OK button.
3. Now Drag a panel control from left side and assign name “PnlReport” in form1.cs. Like below.
4. Now add open solution explorer and right click into project name “ReportGenerators”. Go to Add->New Item. Now Select Data from left side and data set in middle section from Add New Item popup window, like below
Now select add button.
5. Now Open DataSet1.xsd. In design view select the TableAdepter control from left side tool box. Now Table Configuration Wizard open automatically, now follow below steps.
a. Now Configuration wizard ask about your connection string. Press “New Connection” button and another “add connection” window will open. Firstly Assign your system name, Then check SQL Server authentication radio button, now enter user name (default: sa) and your accessing password. After that select data base name “StudentDetails” from the drop down of data base. If you want to verify your details is correct or not press Test Connection Button , Otherwise press OK button. Now press Next Button.
b. Select first radio button “Use SQL statement” and press “Next” button.
c. Now type command to access tbl_Student Data from data base table “select * from tbl_Student” into big text box and press “Next” button, you can use also “Query Builder” button.
d. Now press finish button.
6. Now time to create reporting “studentreport.rdlc” file. Again in solution explorer Right click in project name ” ReportGenerators” Go to Add->New Item->Reporting from left panel of Add New Item popup windows. Now select “ Report” and change the file name to “studentreport.rdlc” and press Add button .
7. Now Open “studentreport.rdlc” and select table control from the left hand side (or tool box) and drag on page. Data Set Properties popup window automatically open on the page , Select data source name DataSet1. Again select “Available DataSet” dropdown control “tbl_Student”. And Press Ok like below fig.
8. Now “studentreport.rdlc” file, there will appear a table with 2 rows and 3 columns. First row Shows Header of table and second row shows Data of tables. Now mouse pointer comes into data row cell. Small icon show on right top corner of table. Click on this and select the column name of table tbl_Student . like below
9. In the first cell select Student Name, then next cell select Father Name and last cell select Registration date. Table Column header automatically set according to data.
10. Now comes into form1.cs, where we drag panel,i.e.” PnlReport”. Open that form and double click into the form, we will write code into form load event. You can write this code in any controls event like button, radio button, check box according to requirement. Now in this we need load report for student list, when we execute our application. So we write all code into form load event.
11. Firstly add namespace “System.Data.SqlClient,“Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms”, before this please add the reference “Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms” from Solution Explorer
12. Create a private function to bind the dynamic generated report into the panel “PnlReport”.
13. Code of this below
private void BindReport()
{
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Server=Kapil-PC;User Id=sa;Password=admin123;DataBase=StudentRecords;");
BindingSource tbl_StudentBindingSource = new BindingSource();
ReportDataSource reportDataSource1 = new ReportDataSource();
DataSet ds1 = new DataSet();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "Select * from tbl_Student";
cmd.Connection = con;
SqlDataAdapter sda1 = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
ds1.Clear();
sda1.Fill(ds1);
tbl_StudentBindingSource.DataMember = "StudentAttendanceList";
tbl_StudentBindingSource.DataSource = ds1.Tables[0];
reportDataSource1 = new ReportDataSource();
reportDataSource1.Name = "DataSet1";
reportDataSource1.Value = tbl_StudentBindingSource;
ReportViewer reportViewer1 = new ReportViewer();
reportViewer1.Width = 727;
reportViewer1.Height = 320;
reportViewer1.Clear();
reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(reportDataSource1);
reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource = "ReportGenerators.studentreport.rdlc";
reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
PnlReport.Controls.Clear();
PnlReport.Controls.Add(reportViewer1);
}14. Call above function in to page load event.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
BindReport();
}