Telerik reporting in ASP.NET MVC project [closed]

Question

Can anyone help me in implementing telerik reporting in ASP.NET MVC project?

Answer 1

The way I have reporting implemented is without a viewer, instead a user is presented with a "pdf" report, that can be downloaded.

Here is a scenario, user purchases a product online and at the end of the check out process a receipt is presented via a Telerik report.

1. Add the references to the Telerik reporting assemblies in your project.
2. Create a report. Telerik TV has some great tutorials on getting started with Telerik reporting.

3. Controller would make a call to the repository, and serve the byte stream back to the browser.

   public virtual ActionResult DownloadReceiptReport(Order model)
   {
        byte[] contents = ShoppingCartRepository.GetReceiptReport(model);
        return File(contents, "application/pdf", "Receipt.pdf");
   }
   

4. In your repository create a function to generate the report, in this case the report isn't directly linked to a sqldatasource, the data source is being supplied an objectdatasource component:

   public byte[] GetReceiptReport(Order order)
   {
       Telerik.Reporting.ObjectDataSource objectDataSource = new Telerik.Reporting.ObjectDataSource();
       objectDataSource.DataSource new PurchaseReceiptReportModel() 
       {
           CustomerName = order.CustomerName, 
           Total= order.Total, 
           PurchaseDate= DateTime.Now
       };
   
       PurchaseReceiptReport report = new PurchaseReceiptReport();
       report.DataSource = objectDataSource;
   
       ReportProcessor reportProcessor = new ReportProcessor();
       RenderingResult result = reportProcessor.RenderReport("PDF", report, null);
       return result.DocumentBytes;
   }
   

In the end, user will receive a download pop-up window with a pdf report.

Hope this helps.