May 21, 2012 at 10:15 am
I currently have a WPF application that had been in production 2 years. Our technical team would like to replace the Telerik chart and graph controls with SSRS. The graphs that they produced for me with SSRS were significantly inferior to the Telerik controls and they were unable to insert data into the SSRS header and footer like we do in Telerik. Our customers love the preset Telerik charts and I am concerned that I will be going from very cool back to a basic chart. Please advise.
May 22, 2012 at 6:52 am
ktaylor 22285 (5/21/2012)
I currently have a WPF application that had been in production 2 years. Our technical team would like to replace the Telerik chart and graph controls with SSRS. The graphs that they produced for me with SSRS were significantly inferior to the Telerik controls and they were unable to insert data into the SSRS header and footer like we do in Telerik. Our customers love the preset Telerik charts and I am concerned that I will be going from very cool back to a basic chart. Please advise.
Being in a similar position some time ago, I would say "yes", with a caveat: you need a lot of patience and tweaking to get SSRS to look like Telerik (or any other custom) chart controls. After the initial overhead, I was still unhappy with the outcome :crying: but as it was a business decision, I swallowed it and now I have learned ...SSRS can look good 🙂
That aside, if I had a choice, I would still choose a custom control over SSRS if budget allows.
gsc_dba
May 22, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Thank you for sharing your experience with me and I am glad ot hear that in end you were happy. I was a little vague in the description of my problem and my situation is that we have a standard set of charts and Excel data that is exported. There is literally no variation in reporting as it deals with positive and negative test results by age group, sex, and position. One concern with SSRS was dependancy on another server where as Telerik is embedded did you have any concerns or problems with SSRS server? thx Ken
May 23, 2012 at 8:02 am
ktaylor 22285 (5/22/2012)
Thank you for sharing your experience with me and I am glad ot hear that in end you were happy. I was a little vague in the description of my problem and my situation is that we have a standard set of charts and Excel data that is exported. There is literally no variation in reporting as it deals with positive and negative test results by age group, sex, and position. One concern with SSRS was dependancy on another server where as Telerik is embedded did you have any concerns or problems with SSRS server? thx Ken
Are you referring to permissions across servers? If so, we did have some initial challenges but our setup included Sharepoint Integrated mode which was eventually resolved with a registry entry. There are some excellent articles available from this link: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/72382/
Hope this helps
gsc_dba
May 29, 2012 at 7:32 am
You could trying using the ReportViewer control as part of your application. I haven't used it but from what I have read, it embeds all of the report logic and processing inside your application. This may give you better (and possible more seamless) integration with your application.
Have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345248(v=SQL.100).aspx (and try seaching for "reporting services embedded rdlc" for more info)
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