StiMobileViewer vs. StiMVCMobileViewer

[mimide]

Hi Andrew,

first of all: congrats to a fantastic product, the mobile line of your reporting products looks really promising.

I have a few questions though: I am looking for a reporting solution for a new generation of our software. As far as I could see the mobile viewer and designer are the only ones who are pure html5/js and don't need flash or any other technology. Our new products aim at users who want to use their software on every device they own, it should be the same look and feel on a PC browser as well as on an iPad or an Android phone. The application that we are designing will be built as ASP.NET MVC3 app using the Razor view engine. I know you have a specific solution for asp.net MVC, unfortunately the viewer needs flash and so it is not for us.

Today while testing the Mobile Suite I noticed that my Visual Studios Intellisense offered me to use StiMobileViewer as well as StiMVCMobileViewer. Could you explain the differences? Is there a place where I can see the two solutions compared? Do you have a demo Visual Studio solution that you could provide us with so I could see how this thing is meant to be deployed?

[HighAley]

Hello.

first of all: congrats to a fantastic product, the mobile line of your reporting products looks really promising.

It's a real pleasure to give the tool that meets your requirements.

I have a few questions though: I am looking for a reporting solution for a new generation of our software. As far as I could see the mobile viewer and designer are the only ones who are pure html5/js and don't need flash or any other technology. Our new products aim at users who want to use their software on every device they own, it should be the same look and feel on a PC browser as well as on an iPad or an Android phone. The application that we are designing will be built as ASP.NET MVC3 app using the Razor view engine. I know you have a specific solution for asp.net MVC, unfortunately the viewer needs flash and so it is not for us.

There are two Viewers in the Reports.Web for MVC. The StiMvcViewerFx needs Flash player. The StiMvcViewer is a AJAX HTML viewer that doesn't need Flash player.

Today while testing the Mobile Suite I noticed that my Visual Studios Intellisense offered me to use StiMobileViewer as well as StiMVCMobileViewer. Could you explain the differences? Is there a place where I can see the two solutions compared? Do you have a demo Visual Studio solution that you could provide us with so I could see how this thing is meant to be deployed?

If you use the ASP.NET MVC3, you should use StiMVCMobileViewer, the StiMobileViewer is for Web Forms.

Thank you.

[mimide]

Hi Aleksey Andreyanov,

thanks for your super-fast answer, it's appreciated!

There are two Viewers in the Reports.Web for MVC. The StiMvcViewerFx needs Flash player. The StiMvcViewer is a AJAX HTML viewer that doesn't need Flash player.

Fantastic! Andrew had pointed me to the Mobile version of your sw earlier but then I'll take StiMVCViewer into consideration as well as StiMVCMobileViewer if both can work without flash.

Are reports interchangable between both versions? Are StiMVCMobileViewer and StiMVCViewer made to be used inside a Razor-View or do I have to deploy them inside an aspx-file?

[HighAley]

Hello.

Are reports interchangable between both versions? Are StiMVCMobileViewer and StiMVCViewer made to be used inside a Razor-View or do I have to deploy them inside an aspx-file?

Both Viewers could be used either in Razor-View or in aspx-file.

Thank you.

[mimide]

Hi Aleksey Andreyanov,

that sounds really good. Are there any comprehensive demo solutions or explanations on how to use the viewers "StiMVCMobileViewer and StiMVCViewer" inside an app with razor viewengine? I'm somehow having trouble to make the controls work inside my demo app, any help would be appreciated.

Greetings from Germany!

[HighAley]

Hello.

that sounds really good. Are there any comprehensive demo solutions or explanations on how to use the viewers "StiMVCMobileViewer and StiMVCViewer" inside an app with razor viewengine? I'm somehow having trouble to make the controls work inside my demo app, any help would be appreciated.

You could find sample projects in the Samples folder of our installation.

Thank you.

[mimide]

Hi,

While trying to deploy your demo projects I always encounter an error that is now also present in my test application:

CA0058 : The referenced assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' could not be found. This assembly is required for analysis and was referenced by: C:\Users\Public\<snip>\bin\Stimulsoft.Report.MvcMobile.dll.

CA0001 : The following error was encountered while reading module 'Stimulsoft.Report.MvcMobile': Assembly reference cannot be resolved: System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35.

I do have references to the above mentioned assemblies but all in Version 3.0.0.0 and a binding of the dll with version 1 and 2 in my web.config

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<dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
      </dependentAssembly>

[HighAley]

Hello.

These samples are for MVC 2.
We need time to prepare a sample project for you.

Thank you.

[mimide]

Hi Aleksey Andreyanov,

thanks for getting back to me, I will have a look here now and then to see if something happened!

[Vladimir]

Hello,

Attached archive contains examples created for MVC 3.0 Razor.

MVC-Razor.zip

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Thank you.