On Feb 27 we presented a webinar on our Telerik Reporting suite. The webinar was titled “Take Your Reports to Any Screen with Telerik Reporting”. In this blog post we will recap the webinar for those of you who couldn’t not make it live.

Telerik Reporting:

Telerik Reporting is a lightweight reporting solution for all .NET cloud, web, and desktop platforms (ASP.NET, Ajax, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, and Azure) which targets developers and end-users. Rich interactive and reusable reports can be created by developers in Visual Studio, and by end users in the desktop-based Report Designer. With the help of Telerik Reporting users can examine and probe data, export reports to Microsoft Office Word and Excel for further analysis, and even present them as PowerPoint documents.

To know more about Telerik Reporting check the product page here: http://www.telerik.com/products/reporting.aspx

Slide Deck:

Here is the slide deck used for the webinar:

Questions & Answers:

Q: Is it possible to convert existing reports in to this?
A: Telerik Reporting has conversion wizards for Crystal Reports, Active Reports and Xtra Reports.

Q: Is this compatible with ORACLE data source?
A: Telerik Reporting supports Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, ADO.NET data sources, relational databases, business objects, ORMs and XML. So as long as ORACLE has a ADO.NET Data Provider we will support it.

Q: For Telerik reports do we need to take any other license like any telerik controls license with reports?
A: You can check our pricing section: http://www.telerik.com/purchase/individual/reporting.aspx

Q: What is the ReportBook?
A: You can read more about our ReportBook here: http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/designing-reports-general-explanation.html

Q: Is there possibility to have chart and table is same report?
A: Yes. Chart and Table are what we call as Report Items. So they can be placed together and bind data accordingly. You can check our dashboard Reporting demos which showcase this.

Q: I have 5-10 reports with data displayed in different formats(table,graph…). I would like to apply same text font for all those reports. Is it possible?
A: Yes you can. You can use external style sheets to apply the same styles in different reports –  Exporting and Reusing Style Sheets

Q: is it possible to convert vs2010 local reports to telerik reports?
A: We do not have converters from SSRS reports, because there is a great difference in the reports’ structures.

T-Shirt Giveaway:

If you are a regular to our Telerik India webinars, you will know that we select 2 random names from the webinar attendee list and they get our cool Telerik .NET Ninja t-shirt. So here are the 2 winners from this webinar:

• Rajan Thaora
• Keerti Valmiki

Congratulations to the winners. We will contact you to get you address so that we can ship the t-shirt. Others don’t worry, you can try your luck in our next webinar.

Till next time – Happy Coding.