How to Add and Design Report Viewer (RDLC) in ASP.Net

In ASP project, if you want to view report, then you have to use ReportViewer or any other Reporting Tools. In this post, SKOTechLearn will explain the steps How to Add Report Viewer in ASP.Net? and also describe the process to Design ReportViewer (RDLC) in ASP.Net.

Reading to this tutorial, there is short UI process to understand about report in ASP.

RDLC ReportViewer Quick Process

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Here we will understand Report process in Two ways.

✸ Add Report Viewer on Existing Form.

✸ Add Report Viewer on other Web Form.

Now, we start step by step procedure for understand.

Step1. Add Web Form and RDLC Report in ASP.Net Project:

First add a web Form in Project then add Report in your application like following steps.

➤ Right Click on Project from Solution Explorer

➤ Find “Add” option and move cursor on it

➤ Next to reach “New Item…” and click on it.

➤ “Add New Items” Screen will appear

➤ In this screen, left side Pane contain "Installed Templates”.

➤ Find “Reporting” Option and select on it.

➤ From “Reporting”, select “Report” option

➤ Then Click on “Add” button.

These process is described in bellow given figure.

Report (RDLC)Adding Process

When you complete these process of adding report on project. “Report1.rdlc” will be add on your project. It will seen inside Solution Explorer screen.

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This is the way to add RDLC. There are another process and some more steps to view the report.

Note: “Report1.rdlc” need the platform where it display the designed template. So, you have to use “ReportViewer” control.

Step2. Add ReportViewer with Settings:

After that open “WebForm”. In your Form choose location wherever you want to add “ReportViewer” control. For adding this control on Form, follow the process given bellow:

➤ Move cursor on “Toolbox” screen to the left side of project.

➤ Find “Reporting” header and click on it.

➤ It will show two options (“Pointer” and “ReportViewer”) control options.

➤ Select “ReportViewer” option and drag on Form’s Location.

➤ Increase or Decrease this control size according to need.

Control with Settings

➤ After that, click on “Tasks” option to this control as describe in above image.

➤ It will show ‘Choose Report’ combo, select report RDLC which you have create in previous step.

Now this control will call that particular RDLC.

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Step3. Design RDLC Report in ASP.Net:

Now, let’s Design RDLC Report. For designing process when you right click, the drop down menu will show an option with name "Insert". You can insert some control in RDLC like TextBox, Rectangle etc. And design it according to requirement.

Insert control on RDLC Form

After this process run your application. But, when you debug application, you will find an error appearing on Web browser.

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Error during Execution of Web application:

Error during application run

Why this error occur?

Lets read error. It says about missing UI.ScriptManager Error. So, we have to add ScriptManager in ASP.Net webform.

Where to find and How to add ScriptManager in ASP Form?

There are following way to solve above question.

Step4. Add ScriptManager in ASP.Net:

➤ Find “AJAX Extensions” header from “Toolbox” screen.

➤ In this header find “ScriptManager”.

➤Drag and drop “ScriptManager” on Form.

Add ScriptManager

After inserting this web control, it will reduce the error which was appearing during run-time.

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Step5. Run Web Form:

Now run Web Form. You will find that there is no error and the output will looks like bellow.

Report Output

So, this post final conclusion is that you have to remember about add “RDLC”, “ReportViewer” web control, “ScriptManager” web control and Inset controls into RDLC for creating or designing Report in ASP.Net by SKOTechLearn Tips.

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