Provide a Client Part to the Client-Server Reporting Application

• Mar 20, 2023
• 2 minutes to read

This document provides general information on how to publish a document generated by a Report Service in a client-side application under one of the supported platforms.

General Information

To obtain a remotely created document, supply the client-side reporting application (under any platform) with the following information:

• Report Service URI - the universal resource identifier of the server-side report service, which generates a document;

• Report Name - the name of the remote report. The report name can be in either a standard or a custom format.

  A report name in a standard format must contain the name of the report class, including the namespace and the name of its assembly. The report class name and the assembly name are separated by a comma, as illustrated in the following example: “WebApplication1.XtraReport1, WebApplication1“.

  A custom report name is determined by the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) extension of a custom implementation of the IReportResolver interface. The following code demonstrates an implementation of a report name resolver.

  C#

  using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
  using DevExpress.XtraReports.Service.Extensions;
  
  namespace DXReportService_ReportProvider.Web {
      [Export(typeof(IReportResolver))]
      public class ReportResolver : IReportResolver {
          public DevExpress.XtraReports.UI.XtraReport Resolve(string reportName, bool getParameters) {
              if(reportName == "MyReport") {
                  return new XtraReport1();
              }
              return null;
          }
      }
  }
  

  VB.NET

  Imports System.ComponentModel.Composition
  Imports DevExpress.XtraReports.Service.Extensions
  
  Namespace DXReportService_ReportProvider.Web
      <Export(GetType(IReportResolver))> _
      Public Class ReportResolver
          Implements IReportResolver
          Public Function Resolve(ByVal reportName As String, ByVal getParameters As Boolean) As DevExpress.XtraReports.UI.XtraReport
              If reportName = "MyReport" Then
                  Return New XtraReport1()
              End If
              Return Nothing
          End Function
      End Class
  End Namespace
  

  For additional information on how to extend the Report Service functionality using MEF extensions, refer to the Extend a Report Service with Custom Functionality topic.

Platform Specific Topics

This section of the document lists tutorials that describe how to provide a client-side preview for a remotely generated document under all supported platforms.

WinForms

• How to: Preview, Export and Print a Remotely Created Document

WPF

• Print a Remotely Created Document