Potential Solutions for Implementing Reporting
There are a number of ways to implement reporting in Silverlight applications, each with its pros and cons, including the following:
- Using Silverlight printing functionality
- Generating a PDF
- Generating HTML
- Generating Office documents
The following sections explore each of the preceding possibilities.
Using Silverlight's Printing Functionality
The introduction of printing in Silverlight 4 allowed you to print an object hierarchy, such as what's displayed on a screen. Unfortunately, it only supported sending the output to the printer as a bitmap, rather than using a vector-based output, resulting in low print quality and large files being sent to the printer. This made it suitable only for printing ...
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