This serves a great purpose, i.e you do not need to run the report every time and report which has been run once can be saved to an RDF file and can be used again to export a report to various formats supported by Active Reports or even viewed in the report viewer. rdf file extension with the use of the code snippet given below: ActiveReport1 rpt = new ActiveReport1()

Since it contains a lot of information, wouldn’t it be nice if we could save it on physical location and use it at other places as well? This report document can be saved with a. If you remember, I mentioned that report document is created in memory. However, this document is still very important as we can use this information to view our reports on the Active Reports Viewer or export the report to PDF,Excel,RTF,TIFF,HTML. Please note that this information is read only as the controls,sections etc have already have being rendered on the canvas with data. So a report document will therefore have abundant information as well. So each page will have copious amount of information regarding each section,control and other settings that are part of a page. So it would be right to say that the report document consist of collection of Pages that form the report.Įach report page in its raw form is nothing but a canvas where reports controls are rendered/drawn along with data. When the report is run the report document gets populated with Pages of a report. The report document exists even before a report is run ,but usually is empty until the report is run. If you are thinking that this technical jargon is a bit to much to understand, then lets break it down into simpler terms so that we can really understand what exactly this file is and what it is used for. The saved report displays the data that is retrieved when you run the report. Once a report has been saved to an RDF file, it can be loaded into the viewer control.” So now the question is that then what exactly is this file? As per our official documentation “RDF is a file format, where the data is static. It is a file extension which is propriety to ActiveReports. To settle the chapter for once and for all, I would like to state that RDF file is neither a PDF nor a.

I have had quite a few customers draw a blank when I have mentioned about RDF file, some have even confused it either for a.

However a file that most customers are not aware is the. Both these files can be used to design reports ActiveReports allows reports to be created in two flavors i.e an xml based file popularly known as Rpx file and a code based. ActiveReports boasts of a customer base which extends borders and seems to a favorite among developers for fulfilling their reporting needs.

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