Question

We have a report designer project which uses Active Reports.
We want to use SubReport tool of the Active Reports.
Subreport control has a “report” property which fills the ActiveReport content of the Subreport.
Since we have a designer project and a SubReport tool,
I want to add a property to the SubReport control which opens a new form that enables user to choose a report from the list and load report into the SubReport control.

So how can I add a property to a control which opens a new windows form?

Here is how I set the properties:

public class SubReportProp
{
    private DataDynamics.ActiveReports.SubReport _SubReport;

    public SubReportProp(DataDynamics.ActiveReports.SubReport subReport, List<string> fieldCollection)
    {
        this._SubReport = subReport;

        if (fieldCollection != null && fieldCollection.Count > 0)
        {
            FieldVars._DataFields = fieldCollection;
        }
    }

    [DisplayName("X")]
    [Description("Kontrolün yatay konumunu getirir veya ayarlar.")]
    [Category("Konum")]
    public float X
    {
        get
        {
            return SharedProp.TrimFloatValue(ActiveReport.InchToCm(_SubReport.Location.X));
        }
        set
        {
            _SubReport.Location = new PointF(ActiveReport.CmToInch(value), _SubReport.Location.Y);
        }
    }

    [DisplayName("Y")]
    [Description("Kontrolün dikey konumunu getirir veya ayarlar.")]
    [Category("Konum")]
    public float Y
    {
        get
        {
            return SharedProp.TrimFloatValue(ActiveReport.InchToCm(_SubReport.Location.Y));
        }
        set
        {
            _SubReport.Location = new PointF(_SubReport.Location.X, ActiveReport.CmToInch(value));
        }
    }
}

Like these x, y coordinates I also need to add another property which enables user to choose a report from a list and apply to _SubReport.Report

Answer 1

http://blogs.gcpowertools.co.in/2011/11/showcase-enhance-end-user-designer.html#more

I think you should have a look at this blog . It does exactly what you want.