Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Service 2008 1.0

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Service 2008 1.0 is equipped with innovative technology  so it is able to provide developers with fast, easy and cheap creation of RIA applications. At present half the battle of business success is a flexible and effective corporate reporting system.  However, the lack of built-in components for displaying the Reporting Services reports in Silverlight put obstacles in the way of effective work with reports. Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008 is the first on the market product intended for displaying the Reporting Services reports directly in Silverlight applications. The product includes a native Silverlight control and is easily integrated into any Silverlight application.

Full compatibility with Silverlight 3.0 provides the ability to use it not only in the applications, located directly on html pages, but also in the out-of-browser mode. Various preview and zooming modes, rich facilities of data visualization, scrolling, interactive sorting, panning, navigation through the reports via hyperlinks, input of the report parameters, search (and more) are at your discretion. The reports are displayed in vector format. This provides the high quality appearance of the report which is impossible to achieve with conversion to html. The user views only necessary report pages without loading the whole report.

This provides high speed and saves Internet traffic. Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services supports customozation of viewer appearance with the use of styles and templates. All aspects of the Silverlight Viewer component behavior can be controlled from the code. The product supports .NET Framework 4.0 and SQL Server 2008. Support for report parameters provides you with the ability to optimize data processing within a report and specify information needed for any particular purpose. Export to PDF, Excel, Html, Cvs, Xml, Mhtml, TIFF is available. Use the functionality of the Silverlight technology for displaying reports from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services!

The main obstacle to the spread of Microsoft Silverlight as a platform for development of line-of-business RIA is the lack of built-in components for the work with reports. At the same time, not a single corporate application can function without effective reporting system.

Perpetuum Software allows you to combine two powerful Microsoft technologies: Silverlight and Reporting Services, so that you can leverage their advantages in your business intelligence applications. 

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is the first product on the market which provides the ability of viewing the Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications. The component represents a native Silverlight control and is easily integrated to any Silverlight application. Thus, it is possible to use the whole set of features which are, as a rule, available in the classical desktop applications, including dynamic scaling and smooth panning with animation, interactive sorting, search and so on.

Silverlight Viewer can be used in applications, located directly on the html pages, and in the out-of-browser mode.

Delicate setup of viewer appearance with the use of styles and templates allows the inclusion of the component into design of any application. All aspects of the Silverlight Viewer component behavior can be controlled from the code. 

Major Features:

1. Printing of Reporting Services reports from Silvelright.
2. WYSIWYG report preview in web browsers with support for scaling, scrolling, panning. The reports are displayed in vector representation. This provides high quality appearance of the report which is impossible to achieve with conversion to html.
3. Support for Out-of-browser mode.
4. Abilities of the full-functional applications: search, interactive sorting, dynamic zooming, navigation through the reports via hyperlinks, input of the report parameters by the user and so on.
5. Smooth animation during the manipulations with reports, no sudden changes on the display occur when you scroll, zoom in or out or navigate the report.
6. Support for styles and skins allow the changing design of any control elements.
7. Reports export to PDF, Excel, Html, Cvs, Xml, Mhtml, TIFF.
8. Automatic fonts load 

Requirements:

• Silverlight 3.0, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, SQL Server 2008