Question on combining reports

[chris.procter]

In a recent thread, Aleksey describes two methods to combine reports. (Headers not working right).

As it turns out, we'd like to convert a series of reports (many customer printouts) in to one single report. I had some initial luck with the first method (pasting rendered pages in to a single report), but the second doesn't work for me.

We have the .Wpf version, and so I changed the line

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mainReport.Render();

to

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mainReport.RenderWithWpf();

Unfortunately, at this point I get an error saying that Stimulsoft.Report.Win couldn't be found.

Does this seem like a bug? It looks to me like dynamically-added subreports aren't being rendered with the Wpf engine (the only one we have).
We're using the custom prerelease from the 21st that you provided, if that helps.

Hello,

In this case, the main report can be obtained either by adding the pages of your other reports using the following code:

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StiReport mainReport = new StiReport();
mainReport.RenderedPages.Clear();
mainReport.NeedsCompiling = false;
mainReport.IsRendered = true;
for (int i = 1; i < repCount; i++)
{
    StiReport repDeatil = new StiReport();
    repDeatil.Load(repArray[i]);
    repDeatil.Render();
    foreach (StiPage repPage in repDeatil.RenderedPages)
    {
        repPage.Report = newreport;
        mainReport.RenderedPages.Add(repPage);
    }
}
mainReport.Show();

or by adding your additional reports to the SubReports collection of the main report, in this case they are rendered as separate reports:

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StiReport mainReport = new StiReport();
mainReport.Load("");
for (int i = 1; i < repCount; i++)
{
    StiReport repDeatil = new StiReport();
    repDeatil.Load("");
    mainReport.SubReports.Add(detailReport);
}
mainReport.Render();
mainReport.Show();

Thank you.

[Alex K.]

Hello,

Please use the following commands:

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report.RenderWithWpf(true);
report.ShowWithWpf();

Thank you.

[chris.procter]

Sorry, I'm still getting the same error.
Here's a stacktrace with the "true" argument if that's helpful:

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System.Exception was unhandled by user code
  Message=Assembly 'Stimulsoft.Report.Win' is not found
  Source=Stimulsoft.Report
  StackTrace:
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiGuiOptions.GetProgressInformation(Object ownerForm, StiGuiMode guiMode)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiGuiOptions.GetProgressInformation(StiGuiMode guiMode)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Render(StiRenderState renderState, StiGuiMode guiMode)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Render(StiRenderState renderState)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.Engine.StiReportV2Builder.RenderSubReports(StiReport ownerReport, StiRenderState renderState)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderReport(StiRenderState renderState)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Render(StiRenderState renderState, StiGuiMode guiMode)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderWithWpf(StiRenderState renderState)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderWithWpf(Boolean showProgress, Int32 fromPage, Int32 toPage)
       at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderWithWpf(Boolean showProgress)
       at Company.Admin.Wpf.DialogCheques.btnExperiment_Click(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) in C:\Pleasant\Projects\Company\Source\Company.Admin.Wpf\DialogCheques.xaml.cs:line 109
       at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(Object source, RoutedEventArgs args, Boolean reRaised)
       at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseEventImpl(DependencyObject sender, RoutedEventArgs args)
       at System.Windows.Controls.Button.OnClick()
       at System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ButtonBase.OnMouseLeftButtonUp(MouseButtonEventArgs e)
       at System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs.InvokeHandler(Delegate handler, Object target)
       at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(Object source, RoutedEventArgs args, Boolean reRaised)
       at System.Windows.UIElement.ReRaiseEventAs(DependencyObject sender, RoutedEventArgs args, RoutedEvent newEvent)
       at System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs.InvokeHandler(Delegate handler, Object target)
       at System.Windows.EventRoute.InvokeHandlersImpl(Object source, RoutedEventArgs args, Boolean reRaised)
       at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseEventImpl(DependencyObject sender, RoutedEventArgs args)
       at System.Windows.UIElement.RaiseTrustedEvent(RoutedEventArgs args)
       at System.Windows.Input.InputManager.ProcessStagingArea()
       at System.Windows.Input.InputProviderSite.ReportInput(InputReport inputReport)
       at System.Windows.Interop.HwndMouseInputProvider.ReportInput(IntPtr hwnd, InputMode mode, Int32 timestamp, RawMouseActions actions, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 wheel)
       at System.Windows.Interop.HwndMouseInputProvider.FilterMessage(IntPtr hwnd, WindowMessage msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
       at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.InputFilterMessage(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
       at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
       at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o)
       at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
       at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
  InnerException: 

[Alex K.]

Hello,

Check the following code:
1:

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StiReport mainReport = new StiReport();
mainReport.RenderedPages.Clear();
mainReport.NeedsCompiling = false;
mainReport.IsRendered = true;
for (int i = 1; i < repCount; i++)
{
    StiReport repDeatil = new StiReport();
    repDeatil.Load(repArray[i]);
    repDeatil.RenderWithWpf(true);
    foreach (StiPage repPage in repDeatil.RenderedPages)
    {
        repPage.Report = repDeatil;
        mainReport.RenderedPages.Add(repPage);
    }
}
mainReport.ShowWithWpf();

2:

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StiReport mainReport = new StiReport();
mainReport.Load();
for (int i = 1; i < repCount; i++)
{
    StiReport repDeatil = new StiReport();
    repDeatil.Load();
    mainReport.SubReports.Add(repDeatil);
}
mainReport.RenderWithWpf();
mainReport.ShowWithWpf();

This code works correctly without errors.

Thank you.

[chris.procter]

Thanks for the reply; we've been very busy with other things for a while.

I used the first method, but we're trying to combine hundreds, possibly thousands of reports, and got the error:

System.Exception: error CS1647: An expression is too long or complex to compile

at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Compile(String path, Stream stream, StiOutputType outputType, Boolean autoCreate, Object standaloneReportType)

at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Compile()

at Stimulsoft.Report.Engine.StiReportV2Builder.RenderSingleReport(StiReport masterReport, StiRenderState renderState)

at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderReport(StiRenderState renderState)

at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.Render(StiRenderState renderState, StiGuiMode guiMode)

at Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.RenderWithWpf(Boolean showProgress)

The second method still returns the "Stimulsoft.Report.Win not found" error.
I've made a small solution to demonstrate the problem (which should be attached).

[Alex K.]

Hello,

Please check the latest prerelease build from 27-10-2010.

Thank you.

[chris.procter]

Huzzah! Thanks; method 2 now works in 2010.10.27

I'm off to see if this method fits my specific requirements.

[Jan]

Hello,

Please contact us if you need any help.

Thank you.