Reporting in VS lightswitch

What are the reporting capabilities of LightSwitch? Will 3rd party controls be needed or will Microsoft offer integration with Reporting Services?

Taken from Michael's blog

DevExpress released a fre开发者_运维问答e reporting control for LightSwitch. And this is excelent news.

DevExpress has a pure LightSwitch reporting tool. It includes:

• Native Entity and Query Binding
• Native LS Report Screen
• Asynchronous Data Fetch (makes it more responsive)

Here is some information:

• DevExpress LightSwitch Page
• Getting Started Video

Hope this helps!

Apparently DevExpress no longer offer the XtraReports for Lightswitch product.

I received this information from www.componentsource.com when I looked into purchasing it (they spoke to the publisher because I had a query regarding whether I would also need to purchase a DXperience subscription).

The DevExpress website somewhat confusingly still has webpage http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/LightSwitch/ for purchasing XtraReports for Lightswitch (as of 14 June 2012).

If you decide to settle for a 3rd party reporting, check out Telerik Reporting - there is a blog on how to use its Silverlight report viewer in LightSwtich.

There are a few considerations, which could be considered drawbacks depending on your case:

• Local binding is not possible currently, since the reports are generated server-side and only previewed on the Silverlight client.
• Telerik Reporting does not offer an end-user report designer yet, so it is still a pure developer solution.

I hope this helps...