Reporting - Tips & Tricks (March 2020)

Here is this month’s edition of tips & tricks for DevExpress Reports. We hope this information will be of value as you explore and leverage the capabilities of our royalty-free reporting libraries.

Interesting Tickets

Reporting – Multiple Supported Platforms (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, .NET Core)

• ExcelDataSource - NULL values returned when importing XLSX file with a mixed type column (T874284)

• Reporting - Data is neither sorted nor grouped even though GroupFields are set up (T874462)

• SqlDataSource - Schema cannot be built when temporary tables are used (T873423)

• Export to Excel - How to export only some DetailBand controls (T866697)

• Export to Image - How to rotate an exported image by 180° (T867478)

• Restoring a report from XML - How to resolve missing fonts with PrivateFontCollection (T867957)

WinForms Reporting

• End-User Report Designer - How to dock PropertyGridDockPanel (T875331)

• End-User Report Designer - How to hide Report Gallery’s Import/Export commands? (T873840)

• End-User Report Designer - How to validate Script before saving the report (T871166)

• ReportService - How to manage cached data expiration per each impersonated user (T867631)

WPF Reporting

• CompositeLink - How to print multiple WPF controls horizontally (T865238)

• DocumentPreviewControl - How to use a custom font in XtraReport (T869163)

• BackstagePrintPreview - What are the default print preferences? (T874230)

• End-User Report Designer - How to customize the toolbox? (T868216)

Web Reporting

• Web Report Designer’s Report Wizard - How to hide the “Label Report” report type (T614321)

• Web Report Designer - How to override the reportURL value before saving reports in the designer (T867285)

• Web Document Viewer - How to setup a Grid LookUp as a custom editor for parameters (T867251)

• Web Report Designer - How to add more cells to XRTable using the online designer (T865931)

• Printing reports in an Electron Packaged App (T849357)

• Web Report Designer - How to create a custom function for the Expression Editor (T873112)

Report & Dashboard Server

• What are the steps to migrate the Report and Dashboard Server to a new SQL server? (T872165)

Documentation Updates

• Document Viewer Lifecycle topic

  Provides reference information about the DevExpress HTML5 Document Viewer’s lifecycle. Explains lifecycle basics, including client-server communication protocols and server-side report storage.

• Web Reporting Application Diagnostics topic

  Describes how to diagnose problems with web reporting applications.

• Export To CSV topic

  Details CSV-specific export options.

• CsvExportOptions.EncodeExecutableContent and ExportSettings.EncodeCsvExecutableContent properties

  Describe how to encode potentially dangerous content during CSV file export.

• FederationDataSource.FillAsync, ExcelDataSource.FillAsync and SqlDataSource.FillAsync methods

  Populate a Data Source in an individual task asynchronously.