What the heck is goin' on with the column Width or Why I do hate rdlc designer in VS...

Question

I can't understand... I put a column into a Tablix in .rdlc designer of VS2010 and defined column's width and even said that it cannot grow. And in the reportViewer when you run app. it gets grown again. Damn it. I replaced every single tag in the file to False - nothing happened, it still takes the width of a prior column. Interestingly some columns and rows that I put yesterday don't grow. I just wanted to separate group columns and 'Total' section with thin empty column, but it gets huge and ugly and spoils everything... damn that thing!

• Why the rdlc designer so damn stupid?
• Why sometimes it doesn't allow me to merge and split cells?
• Is there any better editor(designer) for .rdlc files?

Answer 1

The rdlc file is an xml file. You could modify it directly in an xml editor...

Or, you could map the xsd file to C# Classes and modify using C# or VB; http://gotreportviewer.com/ has examples...

Answer 2

Oh... That is why I like "guide-lines" of FastReport.Net designer. See any flash demo of FastReport.Net. Guides will help you place objects "one to one". But it keep reports and templates in own XML. Not .rdlc.

Answer 3

I've just faced a similar problem. Look up here: http://reportingfor.org/en/news.php?extend.12