I just want a sample example  to made a sample report.

how il do ?

I made an bo on a  sql vue

I made an BBS on this Bo

when i execute, my report is correct but no populate.

Have you a sample exemple because i need to understand the mécanisme .

thanks

bestregards

Eric

I've sent to Eric (private mail) a step-by-step "How to?" (in french). As soon I 'll translate it in english, i'll put it on the forum.

Gerard, we used only native tools from Visual Studio 2008 and StrataFrame. with VS2005, i used Report SharpShooter, but VS2008 greatly improved the reporting. No need to other tools if you want to export in pdf or excel sheets, I found the VS2008 reports really nice, and much simpler than ReportSharpShhoter (and of course than Crystal... )

The trouble in designing a report with VS2008 comes with the fact that VS automatically adds a BindingSource (a native one, not a SF customBBS) on the form where you build your report.
If you do all in code, there is no problem, because you define the data source for your report in the code.
But if you put your CustomBBSs in your toolbox, end then drop visually the cusBBS on the form and link it to your report in the same way (visually), ah... then VS2008 says "he, and MY data sources?" and you need to check again that your cusBBS is always the datasource selected for the report, and you may delete this native binding source from you report.

And what Eric was missing to populate the BO was how to "call" the fill method defined on the BO, from the form through the cusBBS. And as all our BOs are sub-classed from a BO class where reside all our generic fill methods, he didn't see how to retrieve these methods from the cusBBS.