10/22/2009 - Print Reporting Services reports from Silverlight Applications!


Are you a developer? I’m sure you are. So don’t turn and go away! You knocked at the right door! In this article I’m going to talk about your problems and your concerns. And, by the way, where you address yourself if you have ones? I have no doubts that the only place where you can share your worries and difficulties is developer forum. There you can ask all the necessary questions connected with the most important problems giving braking effect to your software development process. And neither any software company nor Perpetuum Software LLC in particularly can stop paying attention to frequent queries regularly appearing in the posts of forum members. So how Perpetuum Software LLC can help inquisitive developers? Let’s start our Q&A session.

Q: Is there a tool intended to work with Reporting Services reports in Silverlight on the software development market? A: Actually, this question can be seen on the forums devoted to Silverlight technology. Perpetuum Software offers you a unique Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services. This is the first product on the market which allows developers to display Reporting Services reports directly in Silverlight applications.It’s a true Silverlight control easily integrated into any Silverlight application and an up-to-date solution on the base of two powerful technologies: MS SQL Reporting Services ? Silverlight 3.0.

Q: What advantages does MS SQL Reporting Services 2005 give to developers and end-users? A: Once I saw the funniest but at the same time the only possible answer: Great). Probably, the member of the forum who wrote this was quite right. Today SSRS is one of the most widely used components for report creation. This can be explained by the large list of advantages among which are higher developer’s productivity and more opportunities for end-users control. Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services developed by Perpetuum Software LLC is created on the base of SSRS. It allows developers to use all the advantages of this technology.

Q: Is it possible to print reports from Silverlight? A: At first sight the absence of printing ability in Silverlight 3.0 makes it an impossible thing. That’s why experienced developers may simply ignore this question. But a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 1.1 solves this problem of paramount importance. Printing Reporting Services reports from Silverlight viewer became possible. Now you can print any report you need without applying unnecessary efforts and exporting to other formats. Everything you need is to press printing button.

Q: Can I view reports in Silverlight without referring to MS SQL 2005 Reporting Service server? A: Of course, you can! With a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 1.1 you get an ability to work with reports created in MS SQL RS without setting MS SQL RS server. Now end-users can just open Silverlight viewer and start enjoying their work with reports. As you see a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 1.1 is able to help developers to solve many disturbing problems. Now the whole set of abilities used in desktop applications, out-of-browser mode, extended report abilities: PDF, Excel, Cvs, Xml, Mhtml, TIFF and advanced Html export are at their disposal.

It’s an open secret that Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 1.1 is a confident step on the software development market of corporate reporting systems. So why not avoid vain efforts and use the best?! Who knows, may be in this case you won’t post on forums...

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As a Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner program, Perpetuum Software has been providing a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components for over 8 years. Perpetuum Software product lines include WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, HTML5, Silverlight, Windoes 8 and Mobile components, and tools for SQL Server Reporting Services. Among them are .NET reporting tool, OLAP component, and such data visualization libraries as gauge and charting products.