How to set my business objects as a datasource?

[Joseph]

Is it possible to set my business object that reside in my wpf project as a datasource of a report? how will it be possible knowing that am using the Bold Report Designer?

Well, using the designer or not is it even possible and How???

[Vinoth Srinivasan]

Hi Joseph, 

Thanks for your patience in Bold Reports. 

Is it possible to set my business object that reside in my wpf project as a datasource of a report?	Yes, it is possible to use the business objects as datasource for RDLC report in WPF ReportViewer. Please refer the below help documentation.  https://documentation.boldreports.com/wpf/report-viewer/rdlc-report/
how will it be possible knowing that am using the Bold Report Designer?  Well, using the designer or not is it even possible and How???	Currently our Bold Reports Report Designer don’t have support to use the business objects as datasource. So, could you please confirm whether you are using Visual Studio report designer to build RDLC reports or you are using our WPF report designer. It will be helpful for us providing further details.

 

Regards, 

Vinoth S. 

[Joseph]

Thanks for your reply,

i found that using Visual Studio report designer extension is very straightforward when it comes to adding object datasources.

i also found that if i want to use the Bold Report Designer, i can just create my rdlc report using the Visual Studio report designer and add my datasources there then go to the location of the report and just open it with Bold Report Designer and now i can easily see all my object datasources in the designer!

[Vinoth Srinivasan]

Hi Joseph, 

i found that using Visual Studio report designer extension is very straightforward when it comes to adding object datasources.

Yes, we also suggest you to use Visual Studio designer for RDLC reports.

i also found that if i want to use the Bold Report Designer, i can just create my rdlc report using the Visual Studio report designer and add my datasources there then go to the location of the report and just open it with Bold Report Designer and now i can easily see all my object datasources in the designer!

Yes, if you design the report in Visual Studio designer and open it in Bold Reports Designer it will open the report properly. As of now, you can design the report in Visual Studio designer and use our WPF report viewer to render the report to avoid the multiple environment for designing reports.  We will let you know once the Bold Report Designer available to build the report with Business objects.

 

Regards, 

Vinoth S. 

[Andi Duferense]

Thanks for the info

[Arumugasami Murugesan]

Hi Joseph, 

  

 

Thanks for the update. 

 

Let us know if you have any other concerns. 

  

Regards, 

Arumugasami M 

[Vukašin]

Hi,

I'm currently researching this topic and I'm wondering if you now allow Business object to be datasource in your report designer? I would like to add custom object that contains lists of other objects as datasource. If there is another way, besides doing in in Visual Studio, please let me know.

[Arumugasami Murugesan]

Hi Joseph, 

 

Sorry for the delay, 

 

We will check and share you the further details for this on January 11, 2022.  

 

Regards, 

Arumugasami M 

[Arumugasami Murugesan]

Hi Joseph, 

 

Please find the sample for business objects as the datasource for the RDLC report in WPF ReportViewer. Please find the sample link. 

 

Sample: https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/ze/WPF_NET_Core-2113337149.zip 

 

Regards, 

Arumugasami M 

[Lukkian]

Hi, please consider implementing support for native object datasource in Bold Report Design (via a reference to a Dotnet DLL), as many like me don't have the heavyweight Visual Studio installed, I prefer the much lighter Visual Studio Code.

Also I couldn't download the sample above, could you make it available again?

My use case is very simple, just an AspNet Core MVC application that needs very simple reports and preferably embedded in the same code base. I would like to have control of the data sent to the report and if possible support for paging or streaming or (if the previous requirements are not possible) a connection to RavendDB with SSL support with certificate and password.

Thank you very much for your attention.

[Arumugasami Murugesan]

Hi Lukkian,  

  

Thanks for the update.   

  

Currently our Bold Reports Report Designer don’t have support to use the business objects as data source. We will include this feature in any of our upcoming Bold Report releases. We are request you to track this feature from below feedback link 

 

https://www.boldreports.com/feedback/12118/option-to-design-a-rdlc-report-with-business-data-objects-as-datasource 

   

Regards,  

Arumugasami M  

[Lukkian]

It's great to know it's in the plans.

Thank you very much.

[Arumugasami Murugesan]

Hi Lukkian,   

 

You're welcome! Please track the status of this feature in the below feedback. 

   

https://www.boldreports.com/feedback/12118/option-to-design-a-rdlc-report-with-business-data-objects-as-datasource  

    

Regards,   

Arumugasami M