Tutorial

Tutorial

How to use the Designer

Please refer to the Create New Report page.

How to use the Viewer in your application

Please refer to the Winform Viewer page.

Generate a PDF without a GUI (server-side)

Please refer to the Export to PDF — No GUI page.

Calling the Viewer exe directly from your application

For the simplest way to present a report to the user, it is also possible to call the viewer (RdlReader.exe) via a system/shell call:

RdlReader.exe C:\path\to\myreport.rdl

VB.NET example:

Dim ID As Integer
ID = Shell("""C:\Fyi\RdlReader.exe"" C:\Fyi\myreport.rdl", , True, 100000)

This gives you the power of RDL-based reports in just a line or two of code, with both the report design and viewing/printing taking place outside of the application. Please refer to Calling the Viewer exe as a system command for more details.

Migrating from Version 4

Please refer to the Version 5 Migration Guide.