I am about to start working on some reports for my 1st SF project, for now I will used the free version of Report SharpShooter and honestly I have no idea where to start even to create the report and use the BBS with it.

Do you think you guys could put together a simple quick sample report in StrataFlix using Report SharpShooter?

You already included 3 reports using MS report, but I am really stuck on this and would like to use Report SharpShooter instead.

http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost19042.aspx

Hi Ivan,

Not a problem with being repetitive.  I have looked at those post, but still I am not able to start up with the build process of the reports.  I checked the RSS web site for any video on how to create a report and their help file is not that clear either.

I am re-visiting again your posts, but it would be very helpful, at least to me to have one of the reports included in StrataFlix done with RSS.

• Add a new item to the project based on "SF CustomBusinessBindingSource" template, named MyTest.
• When the wizard shows I select the following:
• BO = CustomerBO
• Create a Reporting Business Object = checked.
• Create a Custom Business Binding Source = checked.
• Use a Namespace = Not checked.
• The file MyTestBBS.vb is created with the following code:

Public Class MyTestBBS
     Inherits MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business.BusinessBindingSource(Of SimpleReportShooterSample.CustomersBO)
End Class

• Now I build the project, open the Form1.vb and MyTestBBS is not shown in the Toolbox.  Everything else is showing fine in the Toolbox since I have AutoToolboxPopulate = True.

Hey Edhy, regarding to the toolbox, have a look at the Help file:

Also, I have built a sample project on how to generate a report with Report Sharp-Shooter and a CustomBusinessBindingSource, hope it helps.

Abraços.

Will check your sample.

Thanks a lot for your sample and the reference to the help file, I was obviously missing the ToolBoxItem part and assuming it should show up by default.

When creating a report I noticed you use "InlineReportSlot", is there a particular reason to use this in SF application, or it is just your preference?

No special reason, really. To be honest, I haven't tried any of the others.

Glad it helped over there.