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Overview

The WPF Report Viewer efficiently accesses, displays, and interacts with SSRS RDL and RDLC reports from diverse data sources. It supports localization, multiple export formats (PDF, Excel, CSV) and customizable printing. Interactive features like drill-down, drill-through, hyperlinks and subreports enrich user experience. Seamlessly integrates with applications, offering role-based access control for security.

What you can do with WPF Report Viewer

Reports from anywhere

Effortlessly access and view SSRS RDL and RDLC reports with the WPF Report Viewer. With or without a report server, the viewer allows easy access to reports from Microsoft SSRS, SSRS SharePoint, as well as applications, cloud storages, and databases.

View reports from any server or embedded in apps using the WPF Report Viewer.

Connect to any data source

Consume data from a wide variety of data providers that are in local or server databases:

  • Built-in data sources: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, SQL CE, XML, Microsoft Access, Oracle, OLEDB, and ODBC.
  • Business object data sources: IList, DataSet, and DataTable.
  • Custom data processing extensions: MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and more.
More details on report data sources
The WPF Report Viewer connects to any data source using a variety of data providers.

Eye-popping data visualization

The WPF Report Viewer displays reports that provide information, insights, and trends:

  • Basic items: Text box, image, line, and rectangle.
  • Data region items: Table, matrix (pivot table), and list.
  • Data visualization: Charts, sparklines, data bars, gauges, indicators, and maps.
  • Subreports.
  • Custom report items: Barcodes, QR barcodes, and more.
More details on report items
The WPF Report Viewer shows beautiful reports with eye-popping data visualization items.

Presentation-ready reports

Visualize your information with unmatched clarity by highlighting data on demand using the WPF Report Viewer. Supported data customization options include:

  • HTML/rich text rendering.
  • Conditional formatting.
  • Simple and complex expressions.
More details on expressions
Presentation-ready reports with charts and rich formatting using the WPF Report Viewer.

Data shaping

View organized and shaped data to make bolder business decisions using the following techniques:

  • Sorting
  • Filtering
  • Grouping
  • Summaries and aggregates
  • Calculated fields
WPF Report Viewer shows organized reports with sorting, grouping, filtering & calculations.

Report parameters

Parameters are the most widely used functionalities to interact with RDL/RDLC reports at runtime. The following parameter types allow you to modify the data presentation to provide an enhanced user experience:

  • Cascading parameters
  • Non-queried parameters
  • Queried parameters
  • Multivalued parameters
  • Custom parameter layouts
Report parameter documentation
The WPF Report Viewer showing a product line sales report with cascading report parameters.

Interactive reports

The WPF Report Viewer displays data in data regions that support user interactions at runtime with features like drill down, drill through, hyperlinks, bookmarks or anchors, document map, sub-reports, and nested data regions.

More details on interactive reports
The WPF Report Viewer supports drillthrough, drill-down, and hyperlinks in reports.

Multicolumn reports

Allows the user to visualize the data across multiple adjacent columns such as mail merge, business cards, newspaper, and more.

The WPF Report Viewer displaying a product sales report in multiple columns.

Print preview

Provides support to set up print options like paper size, margins, and orientation of the printable output and preview the result.

Print preview documentation
Change the page settings and preview the output using the WPF Report Viewer.

Print and export

Effortlessly print and export report contents by just clicking the print/export option in the toolbar. The most popular file formats such as PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, PowerPoint, XML, and HTML are supported.

Print and export documentation
The WPF Report Viewer provides built-in printing and exporting options.

Customization

Supports complete customization to entirely change the appearance of the toolbar and parameter layout to fit your application’s look and feel.

Toolbar and component elements are easily customizable using the WPF Report Viewer.

Globalization and localization

Easily build applications to be used by a global audience in various languages using culture settings and localizing static text.

Globalization documentation
All elements of the WPF Report Viewer component are localized.

Developer-friendly APIs

You have control over all UI elements (toolbar, parameter block, page, and dialogs) and behaviors of the WPF Report Viewer. It provides the best user experience to users through a rich set of developer-friendly APIs.

Developer-friendly APIs are available in the WPF Report Viewer.

Responsive rendering

WPF Report Viewer will adaptively render itself with optimal user interfaces for phone, tablet, or desktop form factors. This allows your application to scale elegantly on all kinds of devices.

The WPF Report Viewer responsively renders in all devices.

Enterprise-Ready Compliance

Bold Reports helps you meet key security and compliance standards. All activity logs are safely stored, can’t be changed, and are easy to export when needed.

ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type 2
GDPR Compliant
HIPAA Compliant
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Enterprise-Grade Compliance

Bold Reports helps you meet key security and compliance standards. All activity logs are safely stored, can’t be changed, and are easy to export when needed.

  • ISO 27001
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA-Capable
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