Embed Reports as Resources

[Spence]

I have entered this project after much of the work was done on the reports. I love them btw, and the support from stimulsoft is great.

What I'd like to know though is whether anyone has embedded the reports as a resource in visual studio. Although our solution allows them to upgrade asynchronously, they really need dataset changes for a content change and as such I think that they should be part of the executable package. Is this possible, or must the path to the report be a file?

[Vital]

I have entered this project after much of the work was done on the reports. I love them btw, and the support from stimulsoft is great.

What I'd like to know though is whether anyone has embedded the reports as a resource in visual studio. Although our solution allows them to upgrade asynchronously, they really need dataset changes for a content change and as such I think that they should be part of the executable package. Is this possible, or must the path to the report be a file?

Yes, it possible. Use this code:

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Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Assembly.Report.mrt");
StiReport report = new StiReport();
report.Load(stream);
stream.Close();