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Dewayne_Pinion
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10 years ago
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.NET ReportViewer - how to verify reports

All, Our application uses the .NET report viewer to display report information from our database. The viewer itself seems flat and I cannot access individual fields for comparison. Could anyone sugg...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    10 years ago

    You can access data in the report by using ReportViewer's native properties and methods, such as:
    LocalReport.DataSources.Item(DataSourceIndex).Value
    ServerReport.GetDataSources().Item(DataSourceIndex).Value

    You can also turn on Microsoft UI Automation identification for your application - this should expose the report elements as individual objects.

    • Go to Tools > Current Project Properties.
    • Select the Open Applications > UI Automation category.
    • Add WindowsForms*.Window*  to the list.
    • Save the changes.
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HKosova
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10 years ago

You can access data in the report by using ReportViewer's native properties and methods, such as:
LocalReport.DataSources.Item(DataSourceIndex).Value
ServerReport.GetDataSources().Item(DataSourceIndex).Value

You can also turn on Microsoft UI Automation identification for your application - this should expose the report elements as individual objects.

  • Go to Tools > Current Project Properties.
  • Select the Open Applications > UI Automation category.
  • Add WindowsForms*.Window*  to the list.
  • Save the changes.
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    Dewayne_Pinion
    Contributor
    10 years ago

    Thank you this helps a lot!