Report Gallery

DevExpress Report Gallery

When creating reports in Visual Studio, you can download a ready report from a gallery of ready templates provided by DevExpress at templates.devexpress.com.

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Binding Updater

To accommodate a downloaded template to your datasource, you can use the Bindings Updater (both the Template Galery and Updater are integrated into Visual Studio design time). It simplifies the process of matching the data fields of your datasource with the bindings of report controls.

Custom Report Gallery

For your company, you can implement a custom gallery, where you can store all corporate report templates, allowing your end-users to load them into an End-User Designer.

To prepare templates for your custom gallery, you can use the Report Template Editor that is shipped with the DXperience installation. This tool allows you to load a REPX file (that uses CodeDOM serialization), a custom XML report definition file, or a DLL (that may contain multiple XtraReport instances) and generate a preview/icon picture over them.

After the custom gallery is deployed, you can make the Template Gallery and Binding Updater available in the End-User Report Designer.

Related Help Topic: Custom Template Gallery