Hi,

I would like to know, what is the best practice of reporting using SF?

My report could be DevEx XtraReport, or just on screen. Should I use BO, or access DataLayer directly?



Thank you

Since you will not be updating the data through your report, you could use the DataSources collection directly to retrieve your values and even use a typed data set at design-time to build the report.  However, you can also use a business object to build the report by creating a new class that inherits BusinessBindingSource and set the BusinessObject property within the constructor of the new class.  This initializes that BBS class to use that business object type, and you can then drop one on the report and have access to all of the fields on the BO at design-time.