WPF Report Viewer | Reporting Tools

What you can do with WPF Report Viewer

Report sources

View reports from external servers, Microsoft SSRS, SharePoint, your local system, or those embedded in any applications.

View reports from any server or embedded in apps

Report Viewer connects to any data source using variety of data providers

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

Eye-popping data visualization

Visualize the powerful insights from your data using the a variety of report items:

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

Shows beautiful reports with eye-popping data visualization items

Presentation-ready reports

Visualize your information with unmatched clarity by highlighting data on demand. Supported data customization options include:

HTML/rich text rendering.
Conditional formatting.
Simple and complex expressions.

More details on expressions

Data shaping

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

Sorting
Filtering
Grouping
Summaries and aggregates
Calculated fields

Organized data report with sort, group, filter and calculated fields

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

Interactive reports

Display data in data regions that support user interactivity at runtime with features like drill down, drill through, hyperlinks, bookmarks or anchors, document map, subreports, and nested data regions.

More details on interactive reports

Shows drill through, drill down and hyper link reports in Report Viewer

Displays product sales report in multiple column

Multicolumn reports

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

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 setting and print preview the output

Provides built-in printing and exporting options

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

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

Globalization and localization

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

Localization documentation

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.

Report Viewer responsively renders in all devices

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.