Hi guys,
is it possible to access my report's datasets from within custom code or pass them as parameters to a custom assembly? I want the dataset itself, not just fields, so i can programmatically look through it for data.
Thanks!
sluggy
This is not directly supported.
There are however some alternative approaches:
* add a list reportitem to the report and inside the list make a call to your custom code/custom assembly function and pass in the fields as parameter values. This will call your function for every row of data of the dataset bound to the list.
* or a more complex but also more powerful option is to use the new CustomReportItem feature in RS 2005 and implement a custom processing control which can examine the processed DataValues inside the CustomReportItem. A starting point with a sample is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrishays/archive/2005/10/04/CustomReportItemSample.aspx
-- Robert
|||Thanks Robert, i will check that solution out, although it is probably overkill for the particular scenario i was dealing with
