Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C#
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you learned to develop reports using Visual Studio 2008 with Windows Forms. In this chapter, we will look at how to develop the report using Visual Studio 2008 with ASP.NET web forms. Developing VS 2008 reports with web forms is not hugely different from developing VS 2005 Web Forms reports, so you will see similarities between this chapter and Chapter 5, in which you saw VS 2005 Web Forms in action.
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A product drill-down report is a common report requested by various departments in organizations. The beauty of a drill-down report is the ability to empower the user to see only the needed information from the output. The other highlight of this report is the ability to show the count of products belonging to each product category.
A user can expand or collapse the group sections to find more details as needed. You might be wondering how it works. Well, with drill-down reports, detail rows are simply hidden and become visible only when a user toggles them.
This is similar to the tree view structure you are familiar with in software commonly in use today (we use this a lot while mapping data columns from the data source). You can toggle a tree node by clicking either the plus (+) or minus (-) symbol on the node to view or hide the underlying details, respectively. In Figure 15-1, a plus sign (+) is displayed to the left of the product category. A user can click the icon, and as a result, the Hidden property of the details row is toggled between true and false.
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