What's the best approach to printing/reporting from WPF?

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I have an upcoming project which will have to be able to print simple reports from its data. It'll be WPF-based, and I'm wondering which way to go.

I know that WPF introduces its own printing technology (based on XPS) which looks quite easy to use. However, part of me wonders whether it would just be easier to use the ReportViewer control and embed it in a Windows Forms host control, since that will give users the ability to export to a variety of formats as well as print.

Has anyone had any experience with printing/reporting from WPF? Which direction would you recommend?

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8 Answers

We had this same issue, and ended up using RDLC/ReportViewer for now. There's no native WPF reporting tool (that I know of) and RDLC is pretty simple to use, and is free. The runtime overhead for it is small (around 2Mb) but you must remember to distribute it as it isn't part of the .NET Framework.

Bob_King_68970

I've reccently accomplished task of developing own reporting system, which basically consist on design enviroment and data Source manager. The first task was to develop WYSWIG-like design enviroment. I've done this using GDI+, without even bothering about printing, as it came out printing/generating print preview was easiest than i expected, In general it only takes to draw all things on screen to graphics object of printing event.

I think that in case of WPF it would be similar, so all you should worry about is to display you report on screen and printing would be only few lines of code.

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