Why use ReportView?

Reporting is pretty new to me. I see that VS provides some Reporting controls that provides a 开发者_Python百科wizard to help creating the report. My question is, if I already have stored procedures that generate the report data, what is the difference between presenting it through a reportview or gridview? Is there obvious advantage that reportview control provides that other grid controls don't?

ReportViewer in local mode (RDLC) has a lot of additional functionality

• ReportViewer can do multiple tables, graphs and non-table data
• ReportViewer can paginate and print data
• ReportViewer has capabilities to export the report into Excel, PDF etc.

You can use ReportViewer controls to display reports generated with Sql Server Reporting Services. So if you wanted to have a report that included charts or graphics, you could create it and host it in SSRS and then include it right in your application.

A grid view can only display data in a grid. The report viewer has the capability to format data in much more sophisticated ways.