Processing and Rendering Engine

Hi Rajeev,

Outside of the LocalReport class are there any other classes/controls which process and render RDL locally? The LocalReport class does everything I want for it to do, except that the rendering formats are pared down somewhat. I am interested in being able to export in HTML format (with or without charts is fine) as well as the Excel and PDF formats that the LocalReport already supports.

Understanding that the rendering formats have been reduced to limit the size of the component, will there be any other recourse for those of us who would like the extra formats at the expense of component size?

Thanks,
Ken

[718 byte] By [KenHarris] at [2008-2-16]
# 1
The LocalReport class is the only interface to the local report processing and rendering engine. You cannot add more renderers to the LocalReport class either. If you want HTML you could use Report Server's SOAP API. There is even a free version of Report Server included in SQL Server Express, see: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/sql2005features.mspx
RajeevKarunakaran at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio,Visual Studio Report Controls...
# 2
Thanks Rajeev.

My company is reporting from XML data, not relational data. That knocks out using SQL Express because it only supports taking data from the local instance of an SQL Express database.

There isn't any way for the ReportServer (including its SOAP API) to live without being attached to an instance of SQL Server is there? I know that ReportServer stores meta-data in an SQL Server database, but is there a way to configure a ReportServer instance to store its metadata elsewhere (e.g. without using a database)?

Thanks,
Ken

KenHarris at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio,Visual Studio Report Controls...

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