sql server reporting services: trying to understand Report Viewer control -- sql server reporting services

trying to understand Report Viewer control

PacMan
2/22/2006 11:35:05 PM

sql server reporting services: Hi,

I am still trying to get my head around the ReportViewer control. I thought
that this control would enable me to run reports without connecting to the
database. Am I wrong?

I tried the walkthrough "Using a Database Data Source with the ReportViewer
Windows forms control in Local Processing Mode". However, when I moved the
project to another computer without a database, it looked for a database.

What I thought was that this control would "embed" the data so that the
report (embedded as the ReportViewer control in my VB form) could be run
anywhere in an exe file.

Please can someone help me understand what is meant by Local Processing mode.
And, can I distribute reports offline (no connection to the company
database) using this control? Or do I have to resort to exporting html
reports?

Thanks!

Re: trying to understand Report Viewer control

Ed Allison
2/23/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi PacMan,

"Local Mode" does not mean that reports can be run without a database. It
means that they can be run without a report server. In local mode, the
client application is responsible for providing that data necessary to run
the reports.

This is explained here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251704.aspx

Ed Allison

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