ReportViewer Control

[bruce]

We have recently added ReportViewer Control to our web server.

Report Viewer control allows you to render reports built with Visual Studio 2005?s Report Designer. It is a real cool and simple way to build professional reports.

I was going to write a tutorial on how to use this control but I found a very good site that covers almost every aspects of ReportViewer control. The site is www.gotreportviewer.com (http://www.gotreportviewer.com)

You can also review official reference at MS site - msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251671(en-US,VS.80).aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251671(en-US,VS.80).aspx)

Bruce

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[spek]

I was wondering if we can use the ReportViewer to view remote reports since the reporting server is hosted on a SQL Server 2000 Report Server, not 2005.

I found this question and answer on a faq on www.gotreportviewer.com:

# Q: Can the ReportViewer view reports hosted on a SQL Server 2000 Report Server?

A: No. In remote mode the ReportViewer control can only view reports hosted on a SQL Server 2005 Report Server. Note that this has nothing to do with where the data for the report can come from. Data for the report can come from any source, including SQL Server 2000, Oracle, DB2 and non-database datasources.

So is our best choice to use local reports?

[bruce]

you can configure the local report to pull data from a remote database.


Bruce

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[spek]

thanks for the reply.

so my only option is to use local report?

[bruce]

yes.


Bruce

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[momentumfpd]

Thank you for the link to the tutorial Bruce. It answered a lot of my dumb questions quickly.

[bruce]

Not a problem! Glad to be of any help!!


Bruce

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