Basic Approaches
After the report has been created you may either save the report as a special basic class (for this you should use the Save as command) or save the report as a regular report and then use it as a master report. In the first case, you will get the C# or VB.NET class, and will be able to create new reports. For example:
C# |
... Reports.Report master = new Reports.Report(); ... |
In order to use the basic report when creating a new report in the designer, you need to add the following string of a code:
C# |
... StiReport.ReportType = typeof(Reports.Report); ... |
Then all new reports will be automatically inherited from the basic class. In the second way you need to use the following code:
C# |
... StiReport masterReport = new StiReport(); masterReport.Load("d:\\master-detail.mrt");
StiReport report = new StiReport(); report.RegData(dataSet);
report.MasterReport = masterReport.SaveToString(); report.Design(); ... |