6 Comments

• Ben Hayat 03 Dec
  Guys, you rock...! I had recently put this request on the report forum and discussed it with Kiril, and here we are, an amazing clean looking report in Silverlight and also in RADBook. Congrats to both team!
  
  A few questions:
  a) Does the report processor have some sort of Caching system, that if more than one client is hitting the same report, the processor will not regenerate for every request? This  is a dangerous wish to ask for, because the report processor, doesn't know if the data between client's requests have changed or not. But, let's assume, we are generating a report that is based on none-changing data, could we have a faster delivery for any subsequent clients?
  
  b) Let's say on page 9 of the report, the bike "Road-650", had more items that would fit on page 9, where would the rest go?
  
  c) Since this report is being watched on screen, would be possible at design time of the report, to place a nice background image or create gradient color scheme for the background, that would get repeated for each page?
  
  d) How is the WCF report service delivering the pages to the client? One at a time or all the XAML are sent as one large stream? The reason I ask, raises two questions: a) Before the reports begins, is there anyway I can ask the report generator how many pages are the total? b) Can I give user the ability to "Jump" to next or last or first page?
  
  e) Is this solution, "always" going to be Read-only? or would it be possible to have interactive controls? But that raises the question, where do you write code to respond with interaction events.
  
  These answers, will help me make a decision in what cases to add or mix the report along using Items Template.
  
  This demo is very nice and more that I was expecting for the first demo.
  Thank you guys!
  ..Ben
• Vassil Petev 03 Dec
  @ Ben: This post only shows the capabilities of our tools and how they can interact with each other, i.e. it is a showcase. If you think you can use it in the real-world, feel free to download the demo code and play with it - we are sure it will answer all of your questions. Work your MVP magic on it and send us your feedback!
• Ben Hayat 03 Dec
  After looking at the source of Page1 XAML, I see the "PageContent" is being displayed in Left and right Template, along side with Page number that is done on the SL client side. So I guess the answer to (c) question is Yes, I can design the background right in SL client.
  
  ..Ben
• Ben Hayat 03 Dec
  @Vassil: You're absolutely right and I was in no shape or form questioning the tool's ability. I'm super excited with the results. Those were some quick questions as I saw the demo. I'm sure by time you'll see great use of this combo!
  
  ..Ben
• --Kdc 03 Dec
  Looks fantastic!
• dhninh 30 Mar
  dhninh: If I want edit data into this book and update to database, i must do what, how?