Using Business Objects in the Report
Our sample projects and report templates can help you learn the basics of working with our products.Reports can be bound directly to your application's business objects — collections implementing IEnumerable or ITypedList.
Registering the objects. Build the object collection, register it as a business data source, synchronize the dictionary, and render the report.
Registering the objects. Build the object collection, register it as a business data source, synchronize the dictionary, and render the report.
var report = new StiReport();
report.RegData("EmployeeIEnumerable", CreateBusinessObjectsIEnumerable.GetEmployees());
report.Load("Reports/BusinessObjects_IEnumerable.mrt");
report.ShowWithWpf(); // or report.DesignV2WithWpf();ITypedList source, which additionally exposes column metadata. Binding to business objects lets a report consume the very domain classes your application already uses, without converting them to datasets first.