Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed

Chapter 17. Implementing Printing and Reporting

In This Chapter

• Using the Office Integration Extension

• Using SQL Server Reporting Services

• Reporting Extensions from Microsoft Partners

• Using Custom Controls for Printing and Reporting

Without a doubt, creating and printing reports are two common requirements that a business application must meet. As you learned back in Chapter 3, “Building Data-Centric Applications,” business applications created with LightSwitch include a built-in feature that enables users to create basic reports by exporting the content of a data source into a Microsoft Excel workbook.

In most cases, this is not enough; and in the first version of LightSwitch, there are no reporting functionalities available out of ...