I have created one Windows Forms application with C# and MySQL (using MySQL Connector). Now I need to create some reports from data in my MySQL database, and print it out.
I’ve tried Crystal Reports, Visual Studio 2010 reports and so on, but all seem complicated to use with my entity dataset.
I’m using LINQ to get queries. Is there any way I can create reports like HTML format and simply print them through the application? Someone asked me to send my data as RTF and straight without saving or printing it, but I cannot find a good tutorial for creating RTF like that.
ReportViewer is a freely redistributable control that enables embedding reports in applications developed using the .NET Framework. Reports are designed with drag-and-drop simplicity using Report Designer included in Visual Studio 2010. The ReportViewer site will give you all the necessary details. It may be a bit complicated, but it will do what you want. Reporting is a little difficult to understand anyway for a novice user.
I hope you want something like below.