Add Items to the Report Designer's Standard Toolbar

• Aug 18, 2023

This tutorial illustrates how add a new button to a Report Designer’s standard toolbar.

Tip

See the following tutorial to learn how to add a Report Designer to a WinForms application: Create a Custom End-User Report Designer.

Do the following to customize a standard designer form’s toolbar:

1. Click the [Add] button in the Design Bar Manager’s menu and add a new menu item to it.

   

   Change the item’s caption to Help and double-click it. Click [Add] and create a new button. Change its caption to About.

   

2. Handle the newly added menu item’s BarManager.ItemClick event:

   C#

   using System.Windows.Forms;
   // ...
   
   private void barButtonItem1_ItemClick(object sender, DevExpress.XtraBars.ItemClickEventArgs e) {
       MessageBox.Show("This is a standard Report Designer Form.", "About");
   }
   

   VB.NET

   System.Windows.Forms
   ' ...
   
   Private Sub barButtonItem1_ItemClick(ByVal sender As Object, _ 
   ByVal e As ItemClickEventArgs) Handles barButtonItem1.ItemClick
       MessageBox.Show("This is a standard Report Designer Form.", "About")
   End Sub
   

The following image illustrates the result: