"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stch***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Steve,
>
> Thanks for your posting.
> I've also seen your previous thread about the "VB 2005 reportviewer help"
> and posted my suggestion on how to dynamically change the report's
> datasource and refresh it.  And as for your question in this thread, my
> understanding is that you want to do some customization on the
> reportViewer's LocalReport definiation content(rdlc) in program code at
> runtime, correct?
>
> As for the ReportViewer.LocalReport, it has provided several means to
> specify the Local Report's definition template. If we use the
> "LocalReport.ReportPath" or "LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource" property
> to supply the rdlc template, we will be unable to intercept and modify the
> report definition because the ReportViewer will load and parse the rdlc
> content internally(from filestream or assembly resource stream).
> However,
> the LocalReport also provide another method named "LoadReportDefinition",
> this provide us the chance to manually load and supply the rdlc
> template(so
> that we can customize it before assign to reportviewer)
>
> #LocalReport.LoadReportDefinition Method (TextReader)
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251812.aspx
>
>
> for example, in the below code, I manually load the rdlc stream from
> assembly resource and assign it to the reportviewer. And before assigning
> the stream to reportviewer's localreport, I load it into a XmlDocument and
> do some customization(use Xpath to locate the categoryName" textbox  node
> and modify it to a new value):
>
> ==========================
>
> Private Sub btnClientTest2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles btnClientTest2.Click
>
>        Me.ReportViewer1.Reset()
>        Me.ReportViewer1.ProcessingMode =
> Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ProcessingMode.Local
>
>
>        Dim newds As New
> Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportDataSource("NorthwindDataSet_Categories")
>        newds.Value = Me.CategoriesBindingSource
>        Me.ReportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(newds)
>
> ' load the customized report template
>
> Me.ReportViewer1.LocalReport.LoadReportDefinition(GetCustomizedReportDefinit
> ion("ClientReportApp.Report1.rdlc"))
>
>        Me.ReportViewer1.RefreshReport()
>    End Sub
>
>   Private Function GetCustomizedReportDefinition(ByVal rdlc As String) As
> IO.TextReader
>
>        Dim reader As IO.TextReader
>        Dim doc As New Xml.XmlDocument
>
>        Dim stream As IO.Stream
>
>        stream = GetType(Form1).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(rdlc)
>
>        doc.Load(stream)
>
>        Dim node As Xml.XmlNode
>
>
>        Dim nsmgr As New Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable)
>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("dns",
> "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2005/01/reportdefinition")
>
>        node =
> doc.SelectSingleNode("//dns:Table[@Name='table1']//dns:Header//dns:Textbox[@
> Name='textbox2']/dns:Value", nsmgr)
>
>
>        node.InnerText = "new" & node.InnerText
>
>        reader = New IO.StringReader(doc.OuterXml)
>
>
>        Return reader
>    End Function
> =============================
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>
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"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stch***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You're welcome Steve,
>
> Glad to be of assistance. BTW, I also think Oenone's suggestion a good
> idea
> :).
>
> Have a good day!
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>
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"Oenone" <oen***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> steve wrote:
>> How do I access the textbox in "GymMaster.Memberships.rdlc" (below) to
>> change the text
>
> Another way you could do this is by setting the textbox to display its
> value from a datasource rather than hard-coding the value into the report
> definition. Then you can just give a DataTable to the report viewer and
> it'll display the appropriate value from within.
>
> --
>
> (O)enone
>