Using datagrids for a report in SQL Server Reporting Services

Using datagrids for a report in SQL Server Reporting Services

I've got an ASP.NET project that populates a datagrid. I'd like to use the datagrid as my datasource for my report using SQL Server Reporting Services. Is this possible?

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The simple answer is no. However, nothing's ever simple. A set of reporting controls was added in Visual Studio 2005 allowing you to report in a dataset, on data that was supplied by you. So, if you retrieved your data into a dataset, bound the datagrid to the dataset so it had data to display, you could then use that dataset as the datasource for the reporting controls. These are then client-side reports, not server reports though.

This was first published in August 2006

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