I've noticed that a lot of threads in this forum are from several years ago. I do know that forums are usually answered by users not MS support. But, I've also noticed that fewer questions seem to be getting answered these days. Have developers been abandoning ReportViewer?
Based on what I've experienced over the past week, it is very difficult to work with and extraordinarily conter-intuitive. Setting a dataset at design time seems odd to me. I find it hard to believe that most users would want a report to access one only table. Yet, it seems to require herculean effort to simply run a different query and assign a new dataset to the report.
I am beginning to think this has been a huge and costly mistake getting involved with ReportViewer. I could probably have built my own custom control for viewing reports in the time I've wasted on ReportViewer (excluding printing and exporting capabilities of course).
Briefly, I want to create several report templates each of which could accept data from different queries. I didn't think I was asking for so much. In the old days we built our own and it was easier than this. Do I need to build my own or is ReportViewer actually capable of this?
Is there any one reliable source that clearly and precisely explains how to do this? I have search dozens of forums and websites and have not found such a source. None of the answers I viewed have accomplished what I thought was a simple, common activity.
Anyone here up to the challenge?
