Being engaged in development of up-to-date components, Perpetuum Software specialists are always glad to share their experience with any communities and user groups.

We have a sponsorship program for .Net and Silverlight communities and user groups which is aimed at supporting software researches.

Last week our Silverlight developer, Sergey Piskov, was speaking at local .net user group meeting. This meeting was devoted to Silverlight technology examination.

Sergey was speaking about:

1. Silverlight in comparison with Flash.
2. Silverlight versions, changes and peculiarities in each version.
3. XAML – Extensible Application Markup Language.
4. Creation of applications which use XAML as an example of Silverlight applications.

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We are always glad to support any user groups!

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Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services by Perpetuum Software has been reviewed in the CODE Magazine – an advanced technology magazine for Microsoft-oriented developers and technical managers, focused on providing in-depth information to the .NET community.

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One of the articles of the January/February issue of the CODE Magazine highlights the use of SQL Server Reporting Services in Silverlight applications, and of course, this topic cannot be fully covered without telling about Perpetuum’s Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services since it is the unique product on the market which provides the ability to view Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications without using any workarounds and limitations.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

But, this panic about “Silverlight is Dead” was premature. At the beginning of December, all the myths about Silverlight future were shattered. New features of Silverlight 5 were announced on Silverlight Firestarter event.

Improvements in Silverlight 5 will deal with media support and UI capabilities, rich application development environment that enables you to build great business applications. The precise description on these features can be seen on Microsoft Silverlight site.

In connection with this Perpetuum Software LLC starts the development of its products according Silverlight 5 functionality. Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for reporting Services are two products intended for the creation of feature-rich corporate applications in Silverlight.

These components has already proved themselves as flexible reliable native Silverlight controls which address the most sophisticated demands of up-to-date technologies. Silverlight 5 will allow us to improve:

1. Printing in Silverlight Viewer. There will be available full-fledge vector printing.
2. Text rendering.
3. Performance of text output.

We believe that this key functionality will considerably increase components productivity and provide our clients with more abilities in RIA creation and, as a result, business success.

If you have any suggestions please post them on our forum. Your opinion will help us to develop solution exactly for you!

Download Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services…

I’ve already described the features of this release in the previous post. In this post I will describe how to work with such new features of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 as customization of parameters visibility and check of parameters values input by the user.

• So, how to customize parameter visibility.

In order to change parameter visibility, you need to subscribe to the ParameterVisibilityChanging event of the ReportViewer object in the parameters toolbar. You should change the visibility value for the parameter in the event handler.
For example:

On the picture below, you can see report generation without hiding the parameters:

And this picture shows report generation with checking if null value is possible:

• And the second feature is the ability to check parameters values

If you need to check parameters values entered by the user in the parameters toolbar, all you have to do is to subscribe to the ParametersProcessing event of the ReportViewer object.

For example:

You can check and change the report parameters values in the event handler. You can continue or cancel the document rendering if parameters values are entered incorrectly. In order the user could change the incorrect values you can set the ShowParametersPanel property of the ParametersProcessingEventArgs object equal to true. In this case the parameters toolbar won’t be hidden.

For example:

In the example, you can see change of the value of the «ReportParameter3» parameter and check of the correctness of the value of the «ReportParameter4» parameter. If the «ReportParameter4» parameter value is correct, the document rendering will continue. If the «ReportParameter4» parameter value is incorrect, the parameters toolbar and the message about incorrect parameter value will be shown.

Entering parameters values:

Message about incorrect parameter value:

In this post, I described how to use only two of new Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 features. As you can see this is very simple. Besides the improvements in work with parameters, we added drillthrough action in charts, new abilities in work with localization and so on.

The precise description of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 release you can see on Perpetuum Software site. And how to work with this new functionality you can know from our Knowledge Base.

Download Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6…

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At the moment Perpetuum Software development team is working on the next release of this product which will be available in December, 2010. The upcoming release features the drillthrough action for charts created in SQL Server Reporting Services. Actions defined in the chart provide drillthrough links to reports that display greater details based on the aggregate in the main report. Now, you can easily find the needed information in the report via chart in Silverlight application.

Besides that, a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services allows the passing of the client localization to the server. This means that you will be able to display reports in Silverlight in the language you need, thus, all the language barriers will be crashed.

To achieve the maximum identity in reports display in Report Viewer and Silverlight Viewer, we added such features as:

• Display of the table grid;
• Display of the string with hidden cells.

To make the product more convenient in work we added the possibility to get the parameters from the code and customize parameters visibility.

We are welcome any suggestions and comments on Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services on our forum.

Download and evaluate this powerful tool for display of SSRS reports in Silverlight.

These updated demos allow you to test drive many features of the new products version without the need to install them.

Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight on-line demo includes such new feature as export options dialog which allows the setting of export parameters on the fly. The dialog is analogous to a Win Forms dialog, and provides user friendly interface for selection of the needed options during export to PDF and Excel.

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services on-line demo provides the ability to use new thumbnails and bookmarks tree in the reports.

Everything is going to work inside a web browser, with a couple of clicks.

Evaluate Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services on-line without spending time on product installation.

We are glad to announce that now Silverlight 3.0 and Silverlight 4.0 features are available in a single installation package of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 2.5. Now, you can use the features that fully correspond to the features of Silverlight 4.0 in Silverlight 3.0 projects. The only limitation is Silverlight native printing which was implemented exclusively in Silverlight 4.

It is also possible to use Visual Studio 2008 with installed Silverlight 3.0 Tools and Silverlight 3.0 Toolkit for displaying Reporting Services reports in Silverlight.

Download Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 2.5 to use it in Silverlight 3.0 and Silverlight 4.0…