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

Hi Chaps,

Very new user. Looking at reporting options, I have DevExpress Xtrareports, however if I try and drop one my business objects on an xtrareport I get the message

The object that the business object has been dropped on must implement
MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.

Now, I have seen a post elsewhere about creating a class, inheriting the BusinessBindingSource, when I tried this, I was not allowed to drop the object on the xtrareport, so I am definitely missing something or doing something wrong. I am considering that xtrareports is not an ideal companion to Strataframe.

I have also looked at an alternative reporting solution, Report Sharp-Shooter, recommended elsewhere on this forum, but again, when I tried to use the reportmanager component, it could see the objects on my form as databindings, but when I actually tried to design a report I could not get a datasource to appear.

So, right now I am a bit stonewalled, any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks in advance

At my workplace, we exclusively use DevExpress XtraReports in our application.  Like it was said above, the Datasources our Reports use are Classes that inherit the BusinessBindingSource.  Something like

And these can be dropped on the DevExpress Reports without problem.  I have at times gotten the error about implementing the IContainer, and simply closing the report and re-opening it, has allowed me to continue.

Robin Giltner