Reporting for WinForms - How to Load and Restore a Report Using Custom XML Serialization

This example demonstrates the capability to serialize a report and its data source to XML.

Custom report serialization is implemented in the ReportStorageExtension class. The ReportDesignExtension class implements custom data source serialization.

Files to Review

• Form1.cs (VB: Form1.vb)
• ReportExtension.cs (VB: ReportExtension.vb)
• DesignExtension.cs (VB: DesignExtension.vb)

Documentation

• XML Serialization

More Examples

• How to serialize an XPO data source
• How to serialize parameters of custom types

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