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Refresh RDLC DataSet in Visual Studio

I'm modifying an SSRS report inside a Visual Studio project. The report is based on a view in SQL Server that I've modified. The DataSet properties refuses to pick up the new columns in the view without manually editing the XML .rsd file. Searching through these posts and on other sites going back as much as 10 years, there seems to be a "Refresh Fields" solution on the DataSet properties but my DataSet Properties dialog has no such button. I don't want to delete the data set and lose all the report formatting that is already done. There has to be a way to update the data set with new fields.

Visual Studio 2013 - Creating Dataset for RDLC Report

I am trying to make a report. The class that I am working with has several ICollection properties, and passing those values to the report for display is difficult.
I have created a class called FlatClass that has all of the string values that I need to display. In the Controller, I plan to populate an array of type FlatClass and pass it to my Report. From what I have read, I need to create a custom dataset/data source. In Visual Studio 2013, when I click Add DataSet in the Report Data tab, it wants me to choose a table from my database. But ClassFlat does not have a table in the database.
I have added a .xsd file, but I cannot find any instruction on how to tell it the names and types of the Fields I want it to have.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

I tried to create rdlc report in my web application but I could not add my class as dataset. There was no option for that.
Workaround:
Create a Library project in the same solution.
Add the main project as reference to this new Library project.
Create a rdlc file.
Add dataset; for datasource select New->Object->Choose the class from you project namespace
Do your report and when it is complete, move the file to the main project
Not sure if your problem is similar but hope the information is useful.

I ended up creating an .xsd file and just editing the raw XML to add all the properties of the class I wanted to use as a dataset. This worked when I added it to the report.

Update DataSet in Crystal Reports

I have little to no experience in using Datasets and Crystal Reports so please don't bash me if the answer is really obvious, I didn't manage to find the answer on-line.
I have a C# Winforms application, containing a Crystal Report that takes its data from a DataSet. I populate the DataSet dynamically from inside the application.
In the past, if I added another column to the DataSet, I could right click the DataSet in the Crystal Report and click "Verify Database" to make the new columns available in the Report.
Now, if I do this the following window pops up:
There is no item available in the Class Name combobox, and if I check the checkbox, another combobox appears which is also empty.
Please note that I populate the DataSet from inside the program, so there is no connection.
How can I update the DataSet in the Crystal Reports, so that the new columns become available?
Thank you.
P.S.: I have tried the following solution but it didn't work: Update DataSet Schema On Crystal Reports for VS2008 because I am presented with the same window as above.
Also, this is what I see, might be useful:
Edit1: The fields appear in the Data Sources but do not appear in the Field Explorer.
I already have some Formula Fields that have the same name as the newly added Columns but removing them didn't help either.

I finally managed to solve it by myself. There are three things I did and I'm not quite sure which one did the trick since I can't seem to manage to recreate the problem.
I renamed the Formula Fields that had the same name as the DataTable columns I added.
I clicked the " ... " box and reselected the same file.
I added the Internal Connection ID {294de39c-3e3c-4748-9138-53d4be2a74a6} in the Class Name textbox.
The first two probably didn't help since they didn't work before. It did work when I added the string so that's probably the solution, but this didn't work the first time either.
Hopefully my wasted hours would save someone's time.

This is my solution. Here is the steps:
Create New DataSet and drag the table from SQL Server ObjectExplorer
Right click on Database Fields
Choose Datasource Location
Click on the table on new DataSet created on step 1
Click Update
Hope it can help

Active Reports PDF Generation

I've inherited a project that uses Active Reports. I'm required to basically create a simple pdf that holds data that's in a DataGrid on one of my ASP.NET pages.
I've only found a single walkthrough on the DataDynamics website and it only applies to users of VS2003 and VS2005.
The report I need doesn't need to be interactive. I don't need to use Document and Page events. I just need to take what I have in a DataTable (which is bound to my grid) and create a pdf file, which will be available for download.
Is there a straightforward way to create this simple, static report with ActiveReports? Thanks.

kmarks,
You can indeed do this very easily, you can use the same DataTable as a datasource for report by setting the datasource property of the report to the DataTable.Then you just need to add an ActiveReports TextBox control to the Details section of the report and then set its DataField property to a column name in the datatable to bind a field from the datatable to the TextBox control.You can do this either at design time or in the code behind
After you have done this,just create an instance of the report,call the Run the method on this instance and then export the report document to PDF.
I would also suggest you to go through the following link which can help you achieve the same.
http://www.datadynamics.com/Help/ActiveReports6/arWLKCustomWebExporting.html
You can also download a sample application which converts a DataGrid to PDF report using Active Reports form here
ftp://ftp.fpoint.com/ActiveReports/Samples/GridToPdf.zip
Regards,
Abhishek Dutta
Grapecity

Need to add additional DataTables to RDLC

I need to add a second DataTable from our app's main DataSet into a report, but not having much luck.
We have several simple local reports in RDLC files, each with a single DataTable based on a view in our application DB. I need to improve one of the reports to add information from another table. This other table is defined in the same core DataSet which we use for reports in our .NET 2.0 WinForms application. Since the two tables are in the same DataSet, can I just make sure that both tables are loaded into the DataSet and then point the report at the DataSet instead of the DataTable? Something else?
Needless to say, I've been playing around with this for a while and not getting anywhere.
TIA,
Matt

OK, I got this working and, in retrospect, it was pretty easy. I just didn't know which menus to use for getting VS to hook everything up, and which order to do them in.
Looking at the Designer.cs for my form was actually the most helpful thing I did. I noticed was that the ReportViewer has a default BindingSource pointed at the first table. Originally, I was hung up on trying to give the BindingSource a DataSet instead of a DataTable, but then I decided to try making a second BindingSource instead.
Maybe there's a better way, but here's basically what I ended up doing:
With the RDLC in the designer, clicked the Report menu then Data Sources.
On the Report Data Sources dialog, chose the additional DataTable from the drop-down and clicked Add to Report. (I also renamed the new data source to just be the name of the additional data table; VS had created some gigantic long name based on the full namesspace.) OK to close the dialog.
On the designer for the form that contains my ReportViewer control, clicked the ReportViewer's smart tag (the little arrow in the top right corner of the control) and then selected Rebind Data Sources. This made a second BindingSource appear at the bottom of the Designer surface.
Clicked the ReportViewer's smart tag again and this time chose "Choose Data Sources" to confirm that the ReportViewer now had two data sources, each bound to one of BindingSource instances now on the form.
Revised the my form's OnLoad code to load rows into the second DataTable.
Went back to the RDLC file, added a new table and set the detail cells to fields in the second DataTable -- and it worked!
Hopefully this will save someone else a couple hours someday.

Figured out a way to use it in Visual Studio 2010.
Click on View > ReportData and when the report data is seen , click on Datasources and then click on add. DO this as many times as the number of datasets needed.
Now in the smart tags of the reportviewer, click on choose datasources, this will show each of the datasets. To associate the datasets with a binding source, you will have to click on Project and then further click till you get the appropriate class, this will cause the binding sources to be created.
This work around is very useful if you have multiple tablixes and you have to associate a binding source to them within the same report when the report is displayed on the report viewer