No problem, I know the feeling of frustration and I have been there before .  Report SharpShooter is pretty good, at least for me and we are lucky that the guys at SF are also using it, hope you will like it too.

Don't any of you go to far away because I am sure I will be back for more help. TIA.

Sure, we'll be here

Hi Terry,

You did everythig just fine, I think there may be no data for the field cust_Company, try adding cust_PhoneDay and you will see the data.

Hi Charles,

Here are some of your missing parts:

All reporting BBS are created using the SF Custom Business Binding Source template the whole idea behind this BBS is to create specific report BOs that will inherit from any BO you have already created for your forms, this will give you the advantage of creating specific report properties in those BO which are not needed in your form's BOs.

If you select the CustomerNotesReportBBS.vb right click and choose "View Code" you will see this code:

 
Public Class CustomerNotesReportBBS
     Inherits MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business.BusinessBindingSource(Of CustomerNotesBO)
End Class

The highlighted line above is your missing link, this line is telling the BBS to inherit all Properties, Methods and Events from the CustomerNotesBO, the same applies to the CustomerReportBBS.vb and that is why you can see all fields from those form's BOs.

First - what items in the solution explorer are not used at all in the project ? 

The naming convention used has me really confused.  As far as i can tell, only CustomersBO ( which is dropped on form1 as CustomersBO1 and is the BO for BusinessBindingSource1) and CustomersReportsBBS which does not show any SourceBO and yet has strongly typed properties for both Customers and CustomerNotes are actually used.

CustomersBBS??  CustomerNotesReportBBS??  I am sure CustomerNotesBO must be used someplace but I am not able to find at what point it is connected to CustomersBO to provide the data source for the second InlineSlot report.  The data source shows up like this :

I get that Databand1 is using the BBS that contains both BOs and the Databand2 is using the CustomersReportBBS1 (?) which contains only the child bo (?)  but I have not idea how to reproduce the steps to get here in my own app doing a parent child report as I don't see where the child and parent are getting related or for that matter where the child bo is getting added to the mix at all?

Obviously I am very confused on this, so I somebody could answer this using small words and speaking slowly and now leaving out anything I'd really appreciate it. 

OK I got to the point of having the report in the designer by following your directions. So I thought I would add a column called Cust_Company just so I could see if I could do it. I put a textbox to the right of your last name column. I deleted the text out of the text property and I clicked on the Script Editor next to the Binding Value on the top menu. I then opened DataBand1, found cust_company and drug it into the lefthand box. I clicked OK and the textBox showed this <dataBand1("cust_Company")>. I saved the report, closed the designer, built the solution and reran it. Your two columns show up but mine does not??????? What do I do to get my column to show up on the report? TIA.

One is the WindowsApplication1.zip found at

http://forum.strataframe.net/Attachment1033.aspx

and the other is SimpleReportShooter.zip found at

http://forum.strataframe.net/Attachment654.aspx