Question

I have a report that is used by a windows service and a form application. So, I want to put embed the report in a DLL file that can be used by both.

The problem is that if I try to set the ReportEmbeddedResource property of a ReportViewer control in my windows form app, it will search the windows form app for the resource, not the dll file.

e.g.: Code from the windows form app:

rv.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource = 'MyReportInMyDLLFile.rdlc' 

How can I make the above command look for the embedded resource in my DLL file?

Answer 1

Something like this should do it:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom('Reports.dll'); Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream('Reports.MyReport.rdlc'); reportViewer.LocalReport.LoadReportDefinition(stream);