saveenr: There’s a new Open Source Reporting Engine in town: MonoReports

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Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saveenr/arch...noreports.aspx
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Writing a new reporting engine is challenging that will work for people in real-world situations. As I’ve learned over the last three years – the problems aren’t just about having a cool designer and rendering data into tables or charts. (Trust me on this one. One day I’ll explain all the other components that have to go into an enterprise-level reporting framework)

In any case, it’s amazing to see someone take this task on: Today I found out that Tomasz Kubacki started his MonoReports project.

He’s got a 6 minute video on youtube. Now the video doesn’t have any audio – So, below the embedded video I’ve pointed out some things that I found interesting while watching



 

Defining Datasets in code

Screenshot below says it all. Looks to be very easy to create a dataset in C# code. If you’ve seen my AX SSRS Screencasts you know how important “data methods” in C# are for AX SSRS Reporting – so I am glad to see how easy it is below.



 

A Nice Color Picker

Finally my limited ability in the Polish language has a use. It is curious that only some parts of the UI are localized this way – not sure what is causing that.



 

Field Data Binding

Based on the video it looks like only a single dataset can be bound to fields in the report – but that may only be an initial limitation because the project has just started.



 

Export to PDF

A must-have feature. Great to see it enabled now.



 

Reports from Code

Ah now this is interesting – the report can be seen as code also. It looks similar to how in Windows Forms there is a designer that ties back into a code model and quite unlike SSRS where reports live in their own RDL world completely distinct from code. One of the advantages of the code-based model is that it should enable some advanced control of the report layout dynamically – which is not possible to do with SSRS.






Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saveenr/arch...noreports.aspx

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