Samples and Walkthroughs

The walkthroughs and samples in this section will help you get started using reporting features and ReportViewer controls in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Installing the AdventureWorks Database
  Shows you how to download, install, and configure the AdventureWorks sample database.

• Walkthrough: Creating a ReportViewer Report
  Shows you how to work with tables, including step-by-step descriptions of how to group data, sort groups, sort details within groups, create group summaries, and apply formatting through properties and expressions.

• Walkthrough: Using a Database Data Source with the ReportViewer Windows Forms Control in Local Processing Mode
  Shows you how to add a report and a ReportViewer control to a Microsoft Windows Forms application and bind to a data table. In this walkthrough, you create a simple report so that you have a report definition to use with the control.

• Walkthrough: Using a Database Data Source with the ReportViewer Web Server Control in Local Processing Mode
  Shows you how to add a report and a ReportViewer control to an ASP.NET Web site and bind to a data table. In this walkthrough, you create a simple report so that you have a report definition to use with the control.

• Walkthrough: Using a Business Object Data Source with the ReportViewer Windows Forms Control in Local Processing Mode
  Shows you how to add a report and a ReportViewer control to a Microsoft Windows Forms application and bind to a Business objects data source. In this walkthrough, you create a simple report so that you have a report definition to use with the control.

• Walkthrough: Using a Business Object Data Source with the ReportViewer Web Server Control in Local Processing Mode
  Shows you how to add a report and a ReportViewer control to an ASP.NET Web site and bind to a Business objects data source. In this walkthrough, you create a simple report so that you have a report definition to use with the control.

• Walkthrough: Using the ReportViewer Control in Remote Mode
  Developer walkthrough that shows you how to access a report that runs on a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report server.

• Walkthrough: Printing a Local Report without Preview
  Developer walkthrough that shows you how to print a report programmatically using the CreateStreamCallback callback function without preview.

• Sample: Web Log Analyzer for ReportViewer
  Sample Windows Forms application written in Visual Basic that includes a variety of reports that use data from Web server log files.

• Sample: Using an RSS Feed in ReportViewer
  Sample Windows Forms application written in Visual C# that retrieves live data from an RSS news reader and displays it in a simple report. The report includes parameters so that you can filter the dataset.

• Sample Data and Report for Print Walkthrough
  Provides sample data and a sample report definition that you can save to external files for use in the printing walkthrough.

See Also

Concepts

ReportViewer Controls (Visual Studio)
Adding and Configuring the ReportViewer Controls
Creating Client Report Definition (.rdlc) Files
Converting RDL and RDLC Files
Deploying Reports and ReportViewer Controls