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Get Html from Web page and create Setup project for Wpf Application (C#)

I'm trying to create a wpf application such as a movies library because i would like to manage and sort out my movies with a pretty interface.
I'd like to create a library with all my movies getting information from the web, but i don't know how very well.
I thought to get the information from a web site, for example imdb, but i don't know if it's legally to capture html from page to get the nested information.
It's my first desktop application and I would also like to know if it is necessary to create a database within the project and then create a setup project with specified script for deploy it.
Sorry for the confusion but i would like to know too much things :)
Thanks a lot in advance.

The legality of web scraping is a grey area. See my question, "Legality of Web Scraping vs Normal Use" and the corresponding answers for some insight.
Even if the legality is not a problem, web scraping is a flimsy approach because the webpage structure may change without notice, making your application suddenly useless until you update it to the new format. You are much better off using some sort of web API (if the site providing the information offers it).
Whether you need a database or not depends entirely on what your application will be doing and how you design it - it's not something any of us can tell you.
Same goes for the setup project - in fact I wouldn't worry about that until you actually have a working application. Take it step by step and keep the scope within control.

Yes I did not think about api.
It's a great idea, maybe use "themoviedb".
But if i create an application based on it, that has to show all the movies that you have stored on your hdd and get , for example, the posters, the description and the ranking, i have to create a database according to you?
Thanks a lot.

Publish report to Shared folder from C# or through SP(SQL Server 2008)

At high level, this is my requirement.
We have a windows application, which hosts several report(built using SSRS 2008). Now, we have got a requirement like, whenever the user generates a specific report from the application, the same should be saved in csv format in a shared location.
Of couse, once the report is generated, the users have the provision to save the report in any location they want and in all possible formats as allowed in SSRS 2008,but they feel it is becoming an over head for them. So, they just would like to give necessary inputs to the report through the parameter screen(basically nothing but the small dialog which accepts users input and generate the report) from the windows application and once they click on 'Generate Report' or 'OK' button, they want the report to be stored in a shared location in CSV format with a unique name(format:OrderNumber_DDMMYY, here the order number is unique always. the order number is provided as input through report parameter screen).
We have developed the windows application in VS 2008, now migrated to VS2012 and the backend is SQL Server 2008. We also have a dedicated sharepoint.
Can anyone throw light on the best way to achieve this?

Here's something that might be able to help you.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/699869/Accessing-SSRS-Reports-from-SharePoint-Site-using

Simple querying a database using apps for office?

I am trying to begin writing my first app for office.
What I would like to do is simple. I have a database of IDs for my customers. When I hover over one of these IDs, I'd like the app to query a database and display the customers info on the right hand side of the app.
This should be a pretty simple thing to do using apps for office, but I can find no guidelines or help on their web page.
Can anyone provide some simple sample code for doing this?
Thanks very much.

I can say that I spent some time going through this tutorial trying to get a solution for this question. I have a few suggestions about how you will need to proceed in writing your Office App.
I would not advise having the data populate when you hover over an ID field in Excel/etc. You will be hitting your database too many times. I would have set it up, that the user with select a cell with the ID in it and then in your app panel, there will be a button click or event that will make a call to the SQL Server to return the data.
You will need some sort of a web API that you can use to retrieve the data from your SQL Server. The event will pass in your ID that the user selects and then the web API will return the customer details to be populated in your app panel.
Setting up the App Panel seems pretty straight forward in the tutorials on the MSDN site. You can set it up using HTML and CSS to design the page.
I think the biggest thing that you will have to do is set up the API to access the data.

I think these official Microsoft examples will help you a lot.
Example 1 (Bit complex)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp142290(v=office.15).aspx
Example 2 (Looks Easy)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp142161(v=office.15).aspx
Example 3 (With using Visual Studio)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179835(v=office.15).aspx
Happy Coding...

Good web reports designer

I faced wuth task of creating system that will generate various medical papers for patients based on DB data. There is a lot of 3d party companies that will use this product therefore this product will be web-based. The main purpose of this product is printing this papers I have described above. Users already has prepared paper blank on which personal information will be imprinted. All users has various printers and the main issue I need to solve is that every printer prints in own maner and imprinted characters losts their positions.
The possible way I can solve this is to provide reports designer embedded in system, that allow every user "adjust" report to get printer prints properly.
By the way, we has all necessary documents reports storing in .fr3 files. It's 'cause we use same reports in another desktop application and we use fast report engine in that application. So the only one web reports designer I have found is Stimul soft reports web designer. But it's big, awkward and seems too heavy for this small project. Could you guys advice me some lightweight web reports designer/engine that can solve my issue?
P.S.: sorry for my English. I will use ASP .NET MVC3 (C#) for implementing this project.

The key question is do you need report design via the browser, do you merely need printer positioning, or can the report design be performed on the user's computer and it's just report generation that must be on the browser.
If you need report design in the browser then you are limited to products like Stimulsoft which as you said tend to be ackward and limited.
What you may be facing, based on your question, is that you need to position the report on the printer as all printers set the upper left of the generated report in a slightly different place on the paper. The best way to handle this issue is to make your report work fine regardless of the upper left of the printing on the page as the differences are small. But if that won't work, just prompt the user for the adjustment values.
Finally, if you want a system where it is very easy for non programmers to design reports, and the designer can be on their computer, please take a look at Windward Reports (disclaimer - I'm the CTO at Windward. With Windward you design your reports in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint so it is both very easy and very powerful.

I does not understand what your problem is with position. A normal reporting solution print identical on different printers (not valid for old 9 dot printer).
Do you want print in a form (blank)? i-net Clear Reports has a page option for form print and an Online Designer. You find the form print option in the page setup dialog. If you enable the form print option the left and right margin will not change and the print will not scale.
Or do you search a simple designer in a browser? Then you can take a look in the ad-hoc reporting.

Use SQL-Server reporting services (2008 R2 in it's latest and most bug-corrected version).
It can render to HTML, and export to PDF, XLS, CSV and to Word (Word only with a commercial custom extension).
It also has a COM-object, which allows the report to run standalone, without SSRS installed.
SSRS also supports OracleProvider, apart from SQL server.
If a MS-SQL dependency is an overkill, you could take a look at Eclipse BIRT, which is a Java SSRS clone, which has a web viewer and JDBC database connectivity (however, the report format is not compatible).
The bad thing about it is, that it requires the version of Visual Studio that came with the SQL server version (so no designing of SSRS 2008 R1/R2 reports in Visual Studio 2010, you need Visual Studio 2008).

take a look into List & Label. It has a Webserveredition for generating output on web-applications and if you need to modify them there is an ActiveX available. We've done some successful projects with this stuff. Just try it out!

Take a look at Izenda AdHoc
.
In-browser Designer, In-browser Viewes, highly customizable but very simple API, exports feature, multiple databases types support.
You could even change reports looking using CSS styles.
Of course, compatible with MVC.

IE automation and SQL reporting services c#

I'm working on a project for work that has me running a SQL reporting services report all day long. I would like to automate this process and have gotten pretty far in the process. I can navigate to the page, search for what I want, select the output of the file and click export. The problem I run into is the File Download dialog box that pops regardless of file type or mime settings. I am able to get around it now by using an AutoIt function but its flaky at best. I really want to just download the file to a specific location. My question.. Is there a way to intercept whatever clicking the export button does and get some sort of link to the file? Or is there a way to run the function that link does in asp programmaticly and grabbing the file that way? (Sorry if terminology is off not real familiar with ASP).
Edit... I know there are better ways of doing this with reporting services such as subscriptions etc (thanks for the responses btw :)... But this is what I'm stuck with until I can get the admin to fix a few things. In the company I'm at that involves getting about 20 different departments involved and it will most likely not get fixed. But ultimately my question is whether it is possible to do what im asking in C#. Can I intercept where the code is sending me when I click export and grab the file? Is that even possible?

Check if you can use URL Access directly against the Reporting Services server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153586.aspx.
If you can modify the web application, try changing the value of ReportViewer.ExportContentDisposition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.webforms.reportviewer.exportcontentdisposition.aspx) to "AlwaysInline". Alternatively, you can use the Render method (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252199.aspx) of ReportViewer.ServerReport or ReportViewer.LocalReport to render into a Response OutputStream.
Otherwise, you need to peek into the JavaScript in the ReportViewer's IFRAME using IE Developer Tools (F12 in IE8). It needs to perform an additional callback to the server to have it render the report in the selected format. Adapt the actions this script performs.

Why not just use the report scheduling feature to automate it? You can enter subscriptions for the report and it can be delivered on a schedule. There are two delivery methods with SSRS out of the box - email and file share. You can even write your own custom delivery extension.

How much access do you have to SSRS? If you can get pretty much carte blanche, you could setup SSRS to export the report at intervals to a specific location. If SSRS can't hit that location, you could set up SSRS to email the report--from there it is an easy jump to making email dump to location. Either way, there are better angles than "auto click OK" screen-scraping UI automation.
I'd look into the web services. If they can't get scheduling right, they probably didn't get around to turning those off either. Setup a command line app to suck the reports off the services and life will be grand.

It sounds as if you need to treat the reporting service as if it is completely external. Perhaps WinBatch would help you script interaction with the windows? http://www.windowware.com/