Microsoft Reporting Services 2005/2008 in Silverlight Applications is Possible
The main obstacle to the spread of Microsoft Silverlight as a platform for development of line-of-business RIA is the lack of built-in components for the work with reports. At the same time, not a single corporate application can function without effective reporting system.
Perpetuum Software allows you to combine two powerful Microsoft technologies: Silverlight and Reporting Services, so that you can leverage their advantages in your business intelligence applications.
Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is the first product on the market which provides the ability of viewing the Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications. The component represents a native Silverlight control and is easily integrated to any Silverlight application. Thus, it is possible to use the whole set of features which are, as a rule, available in the classical desktop applications, including dynamic scaling and smooth panning with animation, interactive sorting, search and so on.
Silverlight Viewer can be used in applications, located directly on the html pages, and in the out-of-browser mode.
Delicate setup of viewer appearance with the use of styles and templates allows the shameless inclusion of the component into design of any application. All aspects of the Silverlight Viewer component behavior can be controlled from the code.
The user will view only necessary report pages without loading the whole report. This feature provides high speed of work and saves Internet traffic. If the used fonts are not set on the client’s side they will be loaded automatically.
The main competitive advantages of the Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services product are:
- Printing of Reporting Services reports from Silvelright.
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WYSIWYG report preview in web browsers with support for scaling, scrolling, panning. The reports are displayed in vector representation. This provides high quality appearance of the report which is impossible to achieve with conversion to html.
- Support for Out-of-browser mode.
- Abilities of the full-functional applications: search, interactive sorting, dynamic zooming, navigation through the reports via hyperlinks, input of the report parameters by the user and so on.
- Smooth animation during the manipulations with reports, no sudden changes on the display occur when you scroll, zoom in or out or navigate the report.
- Support for styles and skins allow the changing design of any control elements.
- Reports export to PDF, Excel, Html, Cvs, Xml, Mhtml, TIFF.
- Automatic fonts load.
Use functionality of the Silverlight technology for displaying Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports!
Note: Please also be advised that Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2005 and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 are quite different products which are incompatible with each other. In order to avoid all the possible problems you should download only one of them depending on the version of Reporting Services you use.
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