I am trying to bind an XtraReport label to a BO field.

Does our BO implements the IList, ITypedList or IBindingList interface? That's what the XtraReport asks me in the help file.

I get an error after I set the report DataSource to the BO :

Private Sub RelEmpresasToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RelEmpresasToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim Report As New rptEmpresas()
Dim loEmpresas As New ProFilmeNET_BOL.boEmpresas()
loEmpresas.FillDataTable("Select * from Empresas")
Report.DataSource = loEmpresas
Report.lblNome.DataBindings.Add("Text", loEmpresas, "emp_Descr")
Report.ShowPreviewDialog()
End Sub

Any word of advice to direct me in the right direction will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I did the changes you mentioned before to get the BO dropped into the designer. It worked fine!!!

But have you tried the "Preview" ?  I get an error message like this:

Serialization Error

81:  The type or namespace name 'tboTeste' does not exist in the namespace 'ProFilmeNET_BOL' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I understand what you are saying about using a temp table to allow me to generate the fields for strong typing to be able to use the report designer at designtime. That should work ok but I would like to create a seperate report object type that would use the strataframe DAL but be generated using the schema returned from a select statement. This should give me the strong typing I would like as well as allow me some flexibility in having it able to work with Xtra Reports.   

I guess I am just trying to make the reporting process seem a bit more straight foward and maybe I am complicating it more than it needs to be but for some reason reporting in .net seems to be a pain in the neck. Anyways if worse come to worse I know that I can do as you suggested and it will work.

Paul

I'm also having problems dropping a BO onto the report designer so I can pick and choose the fields I want. I was able to drop the BusinessBindingSource but got an error trying to assign a BO. 

How did you get this working?

Thanks,
Tim