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Report Inspector 2.0 – How to Export Your Report Dataset as Excel, XML or Windows client Style

2021-02-08 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 24 comments

Today’s post covers some programming that is not of my own making. My colleague Andreas Rascher has built a damn cool functionality that allows you to export the dataset of RDLC reports in different formats. Since we think the functionality is extremely useful, we didn’t want to keep it from you. You may remember the Mini Report Inspector by Steven Renders. With it it was possible to export the dataset of a report as XML. The Report Inspector by Andreas…

AL Navigator – My First VS Code Extension

2019-10-28 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 2 comments

Sometimes work can be frustrating. I sometimes get frustrated when I find out that there seems to be no quick way of doing things. When you develop reports with Visual Studio Code and AL, you often want to add columns in the dataset for a data item. Sometimes you also want to add code in the triggers. I noticed that there is no shortcut to jump through the data items of an .al report file. My new extension AL Navigator…

Refreshing RDLC Dataset in Visual Studio

2019-09-08 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 1 comment

Getting Changes from the RDLC Dataset When you design RDL(C) Layouts, you usually work with datasets. The dataset defines which data you can use in your report. When you worked with C/SIDE, there has always been a difference how changes in the RDLC dataset were handled by Visual Studio and Report Builder. Once you had Report Builder opened with a specific dataset, you could not change the dataset and reload the changes without reopening Report Builder. For Visual Studio on…