Reporting in VS lightswitch

What are the reporting capabilities of LightSwitch? Will 3rd party controls be needed or will Microsoft offer integration with Reporting Services?

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Taken from Michael's blog

DevExpress released a fre开发者_运维问答e reporting control for LightSwitch. And this is excelent news.

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DevExpress has a pure LightSwitch reporting tool. It includes:

• Native Entity and Query Binding
• Native LS Report Screen
• Asynchronous Data Fetch (makes it more responsive)

Here is some information:

• DevExpress LightSwitch Page
• Getting Started Video

Hope this helps!

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Apparently DevExpress no longer offer the XtraReports for Lightswitch product.

I received this information from www.componentsource.com when I looked into purchasing it (they spoke to the publisher because I had a query regarding whether I would also need to purchase a DXperience subscription).

The DevExpress website somewhat confusingly still has webpage http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/LightSwitch/ for purchasing XtraReports for Lightswitch (as of 14 June 2012).

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If you decide to settle for a 3rd party reporting, check out Telerik Reporting - there is a blog on how to use its Silverlight report viewer in LightSwtich.

There are a few considerations, which could be considered drawbacks depending on your case:

• Local binding is not possible currently, since the reports are generated server-side and only previewed on the Silverlight client.
• Telerik Reporting does not offer an end-user report designer yet, so it is still a pure developer solution.

I hope this helps...