Technical guys made great job reproducing, investigating and finding solution for the reported bugs. Their effort made Reporting Services reports look exactly like in native Microsoft viewer. Now all report elements such as tablixes, page footers, rotated text boxes, nested and dynamic objects are positioned exactly where and how they are expected.

Some new features were added as well. We can proudly announce that Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is completely compatible with SQL Server Reporting Services 1012. As promised under the company mission, we do our best to support all the latest and promising technologies

Now it is possible to manage toolbar visibility. Just set the ToolBarVisible property with a single click and it’s done. Developers can refer to parameters by name. It’s very convenient for implementing non-standard or sophisticated behavior, for example, when it is necessary to hide some parameter.

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New version includes Silverlight-native implementation of User Interface, i.e. it is possible to use Command binding mechanism for UI elements. Developers can manage export dialog visibility and set it up to address the end user requirements. Printing ability is improved as well: now the product can print from the initial HTML document (as in native SSRS Web Viewer).

Other minor bug fixes and improvements are provided.

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“Perpetuum Software is always catching up the cutting-edge technologies – this is our policy. We were the first who developed the native Silverlight reporting tool and we are still supporting this technology in spite of all buzzing around Silverlight,” – says, Mikhail Pieson, CTO in Perpetuum Software. “And to provide proofs, we are glad to announce that Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services and SharpShooter Reports.Silverlight are fully compatible with Silverlight 5 released last Sunday”.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services provides a unique ability to view SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Silverlight without any coding. SharpShooter Report.Silverlight is a flexible tool for the creation any types of reports (complex side-by-side, parameterized, etc. or simple ones) and display them in Silverlight.

One of the most challenging tasks in creation of any reporting system is report delivery to end-users. Silverlight is a cross-platform technology which allows the preview of information anytime, anyplace in any browser. Perpetuum’s Silverlight reporting tools provide quick solution for developers of corporate reporting system capable of delivering reports immediately to the end-users.

Silverlight is a powerful technology which is in demand nowadays as a convenient solution for RIA apps. One of the proofs of Silverlight future long life is confirmed by Microsoft Corp. in “Microsoft Silverlight Support Lifecycle Policy”. Cutting-edge Silverlight reporting tools are essential components for the creation of BI’s applications aimed, first of all, on end-users needs.

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New version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.10 features improved drill through action. Custom handler of the action allows the getting of the additional information about the object on demand. The work with large reports became less time consuming due to ability to remove pages from the pages buffer. There was huge memory consumption if a report was large. Now, if a lot of pages are loaded then the pages distant from the current page will be removed from the memory.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.10 offers advanced usability in errors handling. Instead of “Not found” message you get precise data on where, why and what error occurs.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.10 also includes such improvements as:

• Work with non-standard fonts;
• Hiding of unnecessary buttons on the toolbar;
• Minor shortcomings and bugs fixes.

Please see more information on Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.10 on our site.

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Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.9 provides improved usability due to new abilities of showing of reports snapshots and data caching:

• You can easily navigate the reports history to find the needed report snapshot and display it.
• The data caching algorithms are public. So now you can use one of them or implement your own.
• New caching algorithm transparently requests the server to render the report once again if it is out of cache.

Version 2.9 allows the customization of the user interface. It is possible to set the appearance of thumbnails and bookmarks tree according to your taste. Thus, your user-friendly application interface will address all the requirements of your customer.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.9 includes bug fixes. Perpetuum Software tried to eliminate all the issues about which clients reported. The fixed issues deal with export of charts into HTML format, tables rendering, and some elements displaying.

Please see the precise info on changes in Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.9 in our change log.

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Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is intended for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008. Now, we are glad to announce that the product provides stable work with SQL Server Reporting Services 2011. Perpetuum Software specialists know how it is important to provide users with powerful solutions and follow the recent updates of such widely-used products as SQL Server Reporting Services. But, at the same time we don’t forget about our existing customers and offer to get three product versions in one package: Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2005/2008/2011.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.8 includes new features that make the work with the component more convenient and easy:

• Ability to call export and printing functions from code behind.
• Templates in VB.Net that are included in the delivery package.
• Ability to set address from the service where the resources are located to get them.
• Ability to select time in the parameters’ toolbar of the Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.8 provides a set of bug fixes.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.8.0 is the most up-to-date solution created especially for solving everyday business tasks connected to reports generation, display, delivery and analysis.

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Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight is a powerful reporting solution for the creation of reports in Report Sharp-Shooter engine and display them in Silverlight applications.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is the only product on the market that allows the use of SQL Server Reporting Services in Silverlight.

“We know how it is difficult to build complex reporting system which is available to a global audience, while minimizing its investment in hardware infrastructure and ongoing administration,” says Sergey Piskov, Senior Silverlight developer at Perpetuum Software. “We always tried to provide our clients with solutions that considerably facilitate their work. That’s why now we are proud to inform our users that our Silverlight Viewers can work on Windows Azure”.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services and Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight provide stable work on Windows Azure in full trust mode and partial trust mode as well. Windows Azure helps developers build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft datacenters. The customers can easily access the reports from the Windows SQL Azure portal, through a web browser, or directly from your applications.

With Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services and Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight you can use all advantages of .NET reporting tools to create, view, export and print reports in Windows Azure, Silverlight, ASP.NET and Windows Forms.

To run Silverlight Viewer on Windows Azure please read this article.

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Please be advised that due to limitations in support of custom extension in Windows Azure, Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services executes report rendering on server.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services, released one year ago, proved itself as the only solution on the market which allows the easy integration of Reporting Services into Silverlight application without any workaround coding.

“Combining two powerful technologies such as SQL Server Reporting Services and Silverlight we tried to provide developers with a convenient tool which allows the use of all Reporting Services abilities in Silverlight applications. New release is the next step in realizing this idea,” says Mikhail Payson, Project Manager in Perpetuum Software.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.7 includes such new features as:

• Drillthrough action for gauges and maps. This action allows the getting of details about an item that is contained in an original gauge or map by clicking a link within such gauge or map. Drillthrough action considerably facilitates the data examination and analysis.
• Extended authentication abilities. Now, administrators gain new tools to manage user policies. This helps to ensure consistent security policies are propagated across all network segments.
• Advanced printing abilities. Page orientation is considered automatically during printing. Thus, it is possible to print the documents in landscape mode.

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Perpetuum Software is glad to inform our users that you can purchase this new release with a 20% discount! We are proud to announce that Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is included into Visual Studio Gallery. Now opening Visual Studio Extension Manager you can get quick access to this powerful Silverlight control for displaying Reporting Services reports in Silverlight.

To get 20% discount you need to open your Visual Studio and rate Silverlight for Reporting Services in it!

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About Perpetuum Software

Perpetuum Software LLC is a premier developer of .NET components and libraries for reporting, data analysis, and visualization intended for the creation of corporate applications in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight. Thousands of enterprises in more than 70 countries use Perpetuum Software products to build robust applications and use them across all the main industries: from retail to aerospace. The company stands as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Thanks to joint work of Perpetuum Software and Aspose, developers can build and deliver powerful Silverlight applications with advanced exporting capabilities replacing standard SSRS export features and/or adding new ones. In total, it is possible to add 20+ export options and enable their use directly from UI of a Silverlight application.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services supports all Aspose Rendering Extensions, including Aspose.Words, Aspose.Slides, Aspose.Cells, Aspose.PDF and Aspose.Flash. Developers can ensure the export of RDL Reports to DOC, DOCX, RTF, WordML, PDF, PPT, PPS, XLS, SpreadsheetML, and XLSX without using Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat. The exported RDL report appears exactly according to the RDL design.

The use of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services and Aspose Rendering Extensions together is very easy: almost no coding is required!

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The main task of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is to provide the same abilities for work in Silverlight applications as in Reporting Services with maximum similarity in reports display. Bearing in mind the described above a new version 2.6 includes such features as:

• Drillthrough action in charts in Silverlight Viewer. Actions defined in the chart provide drillthrough links to reports that display greater details based on the aggregate in the main report. Now, you can easily find the needed information in the report via chart in Silverlight application.
• Improvements in work with localization files. Now, it became easier to build reports in the language you need. You can include localization files into Silverlight application without uploading them from the server. Rendering Extension (SSRS) can use the localization you set. Now, all the dates, numbers and so on will be display correctly since localization data for report building will be passed to SSRS.
• Ability to check the parameters values in parameters toolbar and to customize the parameters visibility.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 offers improved class references, documentation and getting started in order to save your time on product examination and work with it. You can find these documents in the product delivery package or on our Knowledge Base.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 is a convenient native Silverlight control capable of facilitating such complicated task as displaying SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications.

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The migration to the latest technologies sometimes connected with various difficulties: the price for an update, the problems with project transfer to a new version and so on. To avoid these issues Perpetuum Software LLC specialists implemented features of Silverlight 4 in Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 for Silverlight 3. Now, you can use one installation package for work with different versions of Silverlight. The features of version for Silverlight 3 are identical to the features of version for Silverlight 4, except native Silverlight printing which appeared only in version 4.

It is also possible to use Visual Studio 2008 with installed Silverlight 3.0 Tools and Silverlight 3.0 Toolkit for displaying Reporting Services reports in Silverlight.

Don’t waste your time and money. Use any version of Silverlight to work in SQL Server Reporting Services.

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Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is a native Silverlight control which allows the display of any Reporting Services reports in Silverlight apps.

A new version of the product provides more comfortable work in Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. It is possible to add service via Visual Studio menu if you use reporting services templates. Working with generated reports was improved. Display of page thumbnails and bookmarks as in Acrobat Reader allows the easy and usual navigation through the large reports. A new option of parameters setting dialog was added. “Select all” option makes it possible to check all parameters values with a single mouse click.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.5 offers bug fixes; it increases component productivity and eliminates shortcoming when working with Silverlight viewer.

Combination of two powerful technologies: SQL Server Reporting Services and Silverlight, in one component provides all abilities intended for the creation of up-to-date professional business system capable of solving the most complicated tasks.

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Version 2.0 offers the most expected feature – drilldown. Now users can drilldown their reports and roll them up by just clicking “-” and “+” symbols. Work with the reports became even more convenient as users can hide unnecessary information or perform deep analysis of the data if required.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is completely compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2. So, nothing prevents developers from using the most up-to-date technologies in the development workflow. Minor bug fixes are included as well.

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• New: Support for Silverlight 4
• New: Native Silverlight printing
• Fixed: Hyperlinks and sorting in ChildWindow
• Fixed: Output of page header/footer
• Fixed: Manual setup of report parameters
• Improved: Installation procedure
• New: Added hot-keys Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+F.
• Improved: Modified search text box - Enter hot-key added (search next added).
• Improved: Modified Cursor (hidden at start).
• Improved: Browsing history - Save moving between reports.
• New: Custom Cursor option – allows the use of standard cursors instead of Perpetuum’s ones

• Drilldowns
• Sql Server 2008 R2 support
• Minor UI fixes

• Printing from Silverlight;
• Export to the most wide-spread formats;
• Powerful preview features (scaling, scrolling, panning, and zooming);
• Support for out-of-browser mode;
• Support for styles and skins allow the changing design of any control elements.