ActiveReports 10 allows you to upgrade from ActiveReports and Data Dynamics reports.
Upgrading ActiveReports and Data Dynamics Reports Projects
You can automatically update reports and corresponding reference assemblies using the ActiveReports 10 Upgrade tool, and then handle any additional errors in the code.
Important: Be sure to create a backup for your project before starting the upgrade process.
To upgrade project references and reports
- In Visual Studio, open an existing ActiveReports or Data Dynamics Reports project that you want to upgrade.
- From the Visual Studio Tools menu, select Convert to ActiveReports 10.
- In the ActiveReports 10 Upgrade tool window that appears, you can see a list of report files to be converted.
- Click OK to upgrade the project.
To handle errors in code
The ActiveReports 10 Upgrade tool upgrade the reports and corresponding reference assemblies, but the updated namespaces, types and types members may break the code.
- With the upgraded project open in Visual Studio, from the View menu, select Error List to get the list of errors to be fixed in code.
- In the Error List window, double-click each error in turn to jump to the code where you can fix the error.
Examples of code that might break and how to fix it:
- Update the Viewer control by replacing
DataDynamics.ActiveReports.Viewer.Viewerwith GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Viewer.Win.Viewer. - Replace existing property names with new property names. For example,
MultiplePageColsproperty is changed toMultiPageCols.
For a list of changes from the previous version, see Breaking Changes.
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