Creation of reports XtraReport, FastReport, CrystalReport!!!

Discussion of open issues, suggestions and bugs regarding Entity Framework support in ADO.NET Data providers
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mirra
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Creation of reports XtraReport, FastReport, CrystalReport!!!

Post by mirra » Fri 23 Jan 2009 08:09

Hello!!!

Tell me please, whether there is an opportunity to create reports, for example, XtraReport or FastReport with use EDM of model entities?


EntityFramework is supporting CrystalReports? i said, instead using datasets? if not, wich alterative way i have to take to build reports using EntityFrameworks in winforms app ?

thanks in advance

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Post by AndreyR » Fri 23 Jan 2009 15:31

There is no design-time support for Entity Framework neither in Crystal Reports, nor in DevExpress XtraReports.
You can implement runtime support by using the ObjectContext's methods, like here:

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xrLabel1.Text = db.DEPT.First().DNAME;

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Post by mirra » Mon 26 Jan 2009 08:24

Thanks, it has helped me! :)

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