Best reporting engine for WPF without a database?

Question

Does anyone know of a Reporting Engine for WPF? Most of the ones I could find are still for WinForms.

I'm happy enough using a WinForms one in WPF with a WinForms host so long as the tool has a UserControl that can be embedded in a window.

Also, I'm not using a database and all my data is in XML so the Reporting Engine needs to be able to handle that.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Here where I work, we use Stimulsoft Reports.Net. It can bind to a lot of things (including XML), and it can export to XPS, which you can then show in WPF using a DocumentViewer, or, if you're ambitious, you can rip open the XPS document using the XPS API, take the Glyphs and Paths out of every FixedPage, throw them on a Canvas, and display it in your app.

Answer 2

We've ended up going with Telerik, but as a WinForms solution embedded in WPF. There are no WPF report viewers that can handle non-database report sources as of Jan 2009.

There seems to be a hole in the marketplace.

Answer 3

Perhaps you can do the reporting in a FixedDocument of FlowDocument? I had the same issue, and in my situation (printing of a 1 page invoice), using a FixedDocument was an elegant and easy solution... (and inexpensive since i didn't need to buy a 3rd party reporting suite...)

Answer 4

ComponentOne Reports can handle non database report sources and it is WPF based. I tried it, and it seems quite decent

Answer 5

There is an open source .NET Reporting Engine for WPF. It supports headers and footers, DataTable binding, barcode generation and XPS creation. Not sure about XML binding though.

Answer 6

See answer on like question: FastReport.Net

Answer 7

also the following report engine could be useful too. http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/22ac97f3-4a3d-4fee-a411-e456f77f6a90/wpf-report-engine-part-3.aspx