Microsoft Reportviewer deployment

Dlls required for Microsoft reportviewer deployment
1 .Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll or Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms.dll
2. Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll


Aslo setup the Reporting Redistributeable version that corresponding to the version that used at the development , for example if you use reportViewer version 10 then you have to set up the  

RDLC reports at MVC project

RDLC reports cannot have connection string and can't directly connected to the database , instead we use the "Object" datasource to provide data to the reports.

The "Object" datasource provides, at the design time , the report by the structure of the data that  will be passed to the report at the runtime

The datasources cannot be added to the MVC project so we need a class library that the datasources will be built upon

Steps

1. create a class library project 
2. add the "ViewModel" class -- that will have the structure of the data 
3. for example

public class PatientViewModel
{
public int Id{get;set;}
public string Name{get;set;}

}

    4. at the solution explorer , select the ViewModelClassLibrary project

    5. at the menu bar => Data => select =>Add New DataSource 

    6. Data Source configuration wizard open => select "Object" Data source =>Next

    7.  select "PatientViewModel " class => finish

    8.create the MVC project 

   9. add new folder called "forms" at the project main folder

  10. add new rdlc report to the folder 

  11 . open the report => at the view menu => press " report data"

12 .create new datasets  => in the list , you will find the created data source at point  (7)

 and give the dataset a specific name => for example => PatientDataSet

13 . at the controller  , create an action for the report

 public ActionResult GetReport()
        {
            LocalReport rep = new LocalReport();
            rep.ReportPath = Server.MapPath("~/Forms/MyReport.rdlc");
            List<PatientViewModel> patients = GetPatients();
            rep.DataSources.Add(new ReportDataSource("PatientDataSet", patients));
 
            //Render the report
            _renderedBytes = rep.Render(
                _reportType,
                _deviceInfo,
                out _mimeType,
                out _encoding,
                out _fileNameExtension,
                out _streams,
                out _warnings);
 
            return File(_renderedBytes, _mimeType);
 
        }