Joe,
One option in your scenario may be to dump your object data (state) in a
database before the report is run. Unfortunately, version 1.0 of Reporting
Services doesn't support events, so to implement preprocessing you need to
get somewhat innovative. One option is to attach an expression to a property
of the report body band (it will fire before the regions get loaded). This
expression could gather the report parameters, pass it to your object which
in turn can serialize itself to the database and let the regions pick data
from there. Of course, this is a rather simplified version of what you may
need to do.
Yes, another and more elegant option is to wrap you object in a custom data
extension. This is actually very straightforward. You need to expose your
object data as a forward-only tabular stream which conforms to the
IDataReader interface. You may find my ADO.NET custom data extension
(
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=B846 8707-56EF-4864-AC51-D83FC3273FE5) useful to get you started. It comes with
step-by-step help instructions.
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Hope this helps.
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[quoted text, click to view] "Joe Helmick" <joe_helmick@4dv.net> wrote in message
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> Ravi,
>
> Thanks, but I have all the samples and unless I missed something due
> to my newbie-ness, I don't see what I need. I don't need drilldown or
> drillthrough, and simple functions in a code-behind don't seem like
> they'd nearly fill the bill. I'm already doing cascading parameters
> from multiple datasets and stuff like that, no problem, but attaching
> functionality from a 700-line VB class with deep inheritance? I don't
> see anything like that in the samples...
>
> Did I miss something, or do I need another resource besides the
> samples?
>
> Joe
>
> "Ravi Mumulla \(Microsoft\)" <ravimu@online.microsoft.com> bellowed
> forth with this wisdom for all to hear:
>
> > I'd start with the sample reports that ship with the product. Check
> >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSAMPLES/htm/rss_overview_v1_631v.asp?frame=true
> > for details.
>
