Creating Custom Reports using Syncfusion

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@tchpowdog 2 жыл бұрын

I've used Telerik Reporting and DevExpress reporting in the past in production environments. Although they were serviceable, I've found them to be limiting and can be memory hogs. And if you have a client facing designer, you better expand your support team. I have not used SyncFusion's reporting. So we switched to straight HTML reporting, using libraries like wkhtmltopdf and IronPDF. These libraries convert HTML to PDFs. So, internally, our non-developer implementers create reports in Dreamweaver or the like and we store the result as templates. The templates contain macros which we substitute at runtime when a report is queried. This works well for us and clients like it. Using HTML also allows us to dynamically create generic reports without the need of it having been designed by a human. Just bringing this up as an alternative...

@AhmedMohammed23 2 жыл бұрын

Crystal reports made me go straight to html razer engine core and webview2 and I never looked back since

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. If you are already using Syncfusion for something else, you can also look at their HTML to PDF option. That way you don't have to use multiple vendors.

@kirkrepository 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tim. The next part of reporting is what I'm eagerly waiting for. :)

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. It won't be long.

@AhmedMohammed23 2 жыл бұрын

last time i tried Syncfusion reports arabic support was lacking is it still the case?

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

I do not know. Sorry, I didn't test that.

@cinismovirtual 6 ай бұрын

Hi. Bold Reports Designer has a bad bug: corrupts RDL file in certaing scenarios, not sure exactly what is it. Any tip to solve this? Of course I make a copy BEFORE start, but sadly if you try to resume working, your file will break always and your work lost.

@IAmTimCorey 6 ай бұрын

That would be something to ask on their developer forum or help channel. Sorry.

@bryanpaderes8963 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. However, is there support for WPF similar to what is available in Telerik Report for WPF?

@Vitalick15 2 жыл бұрын

Tim, when do we have to wait for a video about microservices ? we are all very much waiting)🙂🙃

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

I'm actively working on an API course. That will be a prerequisite for a microservice course (along with a few others). Then I'll do some microservice content. The problem is that microservices is a HUGE topic. It isn't a technology, it is a way of thinking about things. So, you need to know a LOT of technologies to make microservices work (Azure Functions, APIs, gRPC, MongoDB, CosmosDB, Service Bus, Message Queueing, Docker, AKS, Kubernetes, and more). And that's just the prerequisites. Then you need to know how to use them in a microservice-style, as well as how to debug them, etc. I do have a plan for how to teach it, and the KZfaq videos will follow my paid content. It is just taking a bit.

@Vitalick15 2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTimCorey Thank you for the answer, we are waiting very much)

@emmadkareem5247 9 ай бұрын

Nice video and nice tool. How to deploy such a report with a Windows Forms applicate to end-user? Would there be some code calling report viewer external application with the report name? What does the user need to have installed on their machine? Thanks.

@Vic-ky3cc 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I understand the licensing model. On the bold reports website it says that it costs 1000$ per month if I want to integrate the report in my software. That can't be, can it?

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

The Report Viewer SDK, which allows you to integrate the reports into your C# apps, comes with the Community License: www.syncfusion.com/report-viewer-sdk

@pointlesspos8440 2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTimCorey So what does that mean? Does it mean you can integrate it for free, but pay if you sell your app to consumers?

@pierreplourde 2 жыл бұрын

@@pointlesspos8440 if you qualify for the community licence (5 or fewer developers, less than $1M annual revenue), you can include in your production apps for free. If you don’t qualify, you have to pay for a license, but at that point, you’re making money off the software you’re selling, so it’s only fair.

@jayschwarz4365 9 ай бұрын

On their website, the only free Bold products relate to PDF functions.

@chrisjohansson9971 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, just FYI you put "Bool reports" in your description.

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

Fixed it. Thanks.

@guy7524 2 жыл бұрын

How to covert all the reporting services reports. (rdl and rdlc ) files. Clients have invested a lot in these reports and now they can't be used

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

The report viewer can view RDL and RDLC files. I'm not sure why you would need to convert them. This is for creating new reports (and it creates an RDL file).

@Dultus 2 жыл бұрын

As far as I've read the Bold Reports Designer is not part of the community licence?

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

The Bold Reports Designer is actually free to everyone: www.boldreports.com/standalone-report-designer

@Dultus 2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTimCorey I see! Didn't find that page and just saw that Syncfusion said that the Community License doesn't work. Confused myself I guess! Thank you!

@PomegranateChocolate 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dultus I just tried to download it. You need either a work or school email address to download.

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that is correct. Try signing up for the Syncfusion Community License. In there, I had access to the report designer as well.

@kongvang8825 2 жыл бұрын

what is the future of SSRS?

@IAmTimCorey 2 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, it is bright. It is being maintained and updated by Microsoft and they are still investing in it.

@PomegranateChocolate 2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTimCorey There seems to be not a whole lot of activities by companies investing in the paginated reporting space. The new thing (or not so new) seems to be the business intelligence thing like PowerBI, Tableau...etc.

@Terminator090909 2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTimCorey Hi Tim, we are using SSRS at work, your video caught my eye since I was looking for something different for a while now, would you recommend Syncfusion above SSRS in terms of what it offers you? Thanks.

@PomegranateChocolate 2 жыл бұрын

@@Terminator090909 What are some of the pain points you have with SSRS?