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DevExpress - Xtra Reports: VB.NET How to get current page number?

I've searched their site. I just want to find the page number in the vb script. I have a report header, and if it is on page #1 then I want a page break after. ...

Eliminate Group Footer Page Break Before Report Footer

I have a report with a group header and footer. There should be only two groups based on the data. I have the Group Footer set to have a page break after it. I don't want the last Group to create a page break before the Report Footer (If I did, I would set the report footer to have a page break before it.). I've never had this problem w...

How to set datasource for fields in XtraReports without having a dataset at design time?

I'm taking a look now to XtraReports reporting tool and there's something that I don't get it yet. How do I set the data source for a certain field (showed in the report as a Label I guess), without having to build a connection, adapter and dataset at design time but doing it programatically. For example, I can have a table called "Use...

Is there a viewer control for XtraReports in Windows Forms?

Hello, DevExpress XtraReports has a predefined window for showing up the reports that is bundle with the report class, but I wonder if there is a viewer control like Active Reports has to show the report. Thanks ...

How to show the XtraReports Field List panel when it's closed?

Hello! Maybe this is a newbie question or RTFM question... but I couldn't find it yet. Once we have a schema in a XtraReport, the tool shows the Field List, which is a panel from we can add fields to our report, with the datasource setted. But there's cases where that field list is closed by whatever reason (for example, I just re-open...

How to improve performance of XtraReports using a web service to get the data?

Hello, I'm facing a potential problem using the XtraReports tool and a web service about performance. in a Windows Form app. I know XtraReport loads large data set (I understand a large data set as +10,000 rows) by loading the first pages and then continue loading the rest of the pages in the background, but all this is done with a dat...

Set programatically the title to the viewer form in XtraReport

Hello, Does anybody know how to set the title to the form viewer when showing an XtraReport document? The scenario is the following: I have an XtraReport report configured, I show it calling the ShowPreviewDialog method, a viewer form opens and shows the document. I need to set the title to this viewer form and can't find the property ...

How to create an unbound subreport in another unbound report

I have an unbound XtraReport that has a subreport control which contains another report. I call "unbound" to a report that has the definition of the fields using a schema but not actually bound to any DataSet, I create a DataTable using a Data Access Layer and then pass that object to the DataSource property of the report. So, I have th...

DevExpress Xtra Report: How to display a label in group footer when the detail band does not have any data?

If a have a lable called: lblWarning. I'd like to display it (Visible = True) when the detail band does not have any records. The label is in the group footer. ...

IQueryable to DataSet

I have seen numerous methods and tricks around the net today. What i need is convert my Linq to SQL queries (IQueryable results) into a DataSet for reporting purposes. Reporting tool is XtraReports from DevExpress. A promising solution i found in another post is modelshredder. I am still concern though about the whole object graph, what...

What are pros/cons to DevExpress Reports?

I'm looking for a new reporting tool and DevExpress XtraReports look pretty good. I didn't find any discussion on them so here we go. Have you found any problems with the report format, and saving reports to a database? Any common performance problems? How well does the end user report designer work? How does it fare against SSRS? (...

[XtraReport] XRRichText doesn't render Html tables

Hello all, I use a DevExpress XtraReport to build reports. I create in run-time the List of report's records. One field is XRRichText and contains simple markup: <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px;width:100%;"> <tr> <td style="width:40%;">value0</td> <td style="width:30%...

XtraReports Web Viewer not loading Parameters Popup

So were loading a a report from a saved file (this seems to not be the general way to do things), but the report viewer refuses to initialise the parameters popup. WTF!!! Here's the code: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string ReportName = Request["ReportName"]; XtraReport newReport = CreateReportFromFile(Rep...

How to pass textbox value from one webform to a xtrareport ?

Hello, I have a web form where I have a textbox in which the user will enter the number and pull the information from the table. Now I have developed a xtrareport, where I have to display the data of which the user enters in that textbox which I mentioned earlier. Everything works fine, only I need to just pass the value of the texbox(fo...

How to Improve the UI of Xtrareport from runtime ?

I am having a problem in paging for XtraReports. How can I improve the report paging from runtime and also I would like to initialize the reportviewer from pageload. Iam not able to do that. Any help is appreciated. Thanking you . We are designing the reports from runtime , so the data on multiple pages is not working i mean I am not co...

Creating DataAdapters for Entity Framework

This relates to the reporting suite we are using, but I believe the pattern is the same for WinForms and other .NET technologies. The reporting suite we are using (XtraReports 10) supports design time preview of the data if the DataAdapter property is set. When using a DataSet datasource, a TableAdapter is generated (by the DataSet), wh...

GetCurrentRow() in Devexpress XtraReports not working any more...

Hi, does anyone know why GetCurrentRow() in xtrareports, devexpress 10.1.4 doesn't work anymore? It always returns a null, in the previous versions it used to return the current row on the data source. It's being used in a subreport context. ...

XtraLabel DataBinding

I using XtraRepo rt to creating report. I add two labels in designer with names: lblCategoryName and lblCategoryDescription. Data binding and show preview: public class Category { public string CategoryName { get; set; } public string CategoryDesciption { get; set; } public Category(string name, string ...

How to do a mailing using a reporting tool?

Env.: Reporting Services or XTraReport, SqlServer Express 2008 R2, VS2008, WinForms, C# Hi All, My WinForms app must send a customized letter to a bunch of people (whose contact info is in SqlServer). This is the typical job for Word Mail/Merge. But I'd like to do it without Word installed on client computers. I'd rather use MS Repor...

XtraReports GroupHeader group and order by an integer value

I have a group header on my xtrareport. The groupfield is bound to an integer value. How do I get it to sort/order by that value? It seems to treat it as a string value and the ordering does not work i.e. 1010, 635,956,5810 should appear as 635,956,1010,5810 but it shows up as 1010,5810,635,956..... ...