Customer Reviews

Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C#

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I like this book very much. The author explains the client-side reporting with Visual studio in C# in detail, especially step by step. The topics cover windows form, web form, windows service and web service, which are useful for developers to write the report easily.

Although this book says it covers version VS 2005 and VS 2008, I really hope the author can update this book using VS 2008 version and add some new features such as LINQ to generate the client-side reports easily. I will recommend this book to everyone.

The author clearly explains how to create client-side reports for Microsoft's ReportViewer control. He goes through a number of different types of reports which are useful examples that I was able to use as springboards for creating my own reports. Yes, the writing style is not "Western" but frankly, all I needed was a good resource not a literary book.

I am new to Visual Studio reporting and I need allot of help. My employers want us to use Visual Basic insted of C# but I took a chance and purchased this book anyway with several others that I thought would be more to the point. I was very surprised to find that even though this book is written for C#, it is the only one that really covered what I needed. The writer's style is very clear and easy to understand and I was able to convert his C# code to the VB code that we are using. After reading the book, I able to make beautiful reports and keep my employers happy.

I had some problems converting over to Visual Studio 2010 from Visual Studio 2008 so I contacted Mr. Sayed by e-mail. He responded in under 24 hours and was kind enough to help me fix my problem.

This is the book for you if you want to learn about Visual Studio reporting whether you are using C# or Visual Basic.

The book gets the two starts as previously defined for being the only one available. It is a beginner's introduction to Client Side Reporting. Unfortunately if you have reporting experience or are shifting from Crystal to Report Viewer, it is difficult to find what you need. The chapters are a series of reports being created for a specific modality, like winforms, or web based, or console apps, etc. The problem is if you want to learn how to set pagination, you have to search through every example of every chapter to find where that was done. If you have read any of Brian Bischof's books on Crytal Reports, you will be left wanting.

I don't mind the language typos but the typos in the code are critical. There are many, so watch out when you try to copy an example.

Hopefully the author will write an advanced version that has a feature oriented section, rather than just a lot of walkthroughs of how to create a new report.

I bought this product in order to develop a dozen reports with formatting, aggregate data and pivots.

After reading the four first chapters I knew enough to develop and deliver the reports. If you skip the cultural initial chapter you might be able to be up and running in less than a day. The rest of the chapters I didn't need since they dealt with peculiar situations I didn't encounter.

The code examples work for VS2005 and VS2008 yet I discovered for myself that most of the code is unnecessary for VS2008; If you look at the properties of your objects in design mode you'll see you can do most of the work at design time.

The tone of the book is slightly humourous and I have no problem with that as long as the book fulfills my needs. In fact, despite a short deadline and the pressure that goes with it, I did appreciate it.

This is the only book available on client side reporting. That alone justifies the two stars. The author is obviously not a native English speaker and Apress didn't bother to do much editing either. The book is painful to read with its broken English and repetitive verbosity.

There are not many resources for client side reporting, and this is a good book. It starts out simple, and gets through to the harder stuff as you go. Only reason for not being a 5 star is that it can be repetitive as they use the same techniques when generating data for reports, and do not expand on those techniques as it goes. Overall worth the purchase to learn client side reporting.

Picked this up as a refernece book but ended up reading it from cover to cover. Well written, well put together. I like the way he teaches by walking you through hands on reporting. The only thing I can see missing is how to print rdlc files directly to the printer and maybe some more complex examples. Not all reports as as simple as most of the examples in the book. But I still rate it as a 5 star book.

I received this book today and have already completed four chapters. It is an easy read and generally thought out. The only complaint so far is the author's over use of the word "Please"! Please see Figure n.n Please give an application name... Enough!

Did the publisher review this book before it went to press? How annoying!

Day two:

In addition, the author writes in broken English: "You should also keep in mind that there is more then one way of getting a report done."

If I had a nickel for every grammatical error I could buy the book which is a shame since the book really is helpful.

This book is rated for intermediate - advanced user but over and over there are instructions for creating a project, creating a dataset, etc.