ActiveReports 11
Embed Subreports
ActiveReports 11 > ActiveReports User Guide > How To > Section Report How To > Embed Subreports

To embed a subreport into a parent report, you add two reports (one parent and one child report) to a Visual Studio project, and from the ActiveReports 11 Section Report toolbox, drag the SubReport control onto the parent report. The following steps take you through the process of adding a subreport in a section report.

These steps assume that you have already added a Section Report (code-based) template in a Visual Studio project. See Adding an ActiveReport to a Project for further information.

To add code to create an instance of the child report in the parent report

  1. Double-click the gray area around the parent report to create an event-handling method for the ReportStart event.
  2. Add code like the following to the handler to create a new instance of the child report.

    To write the code in Visual Basic

    Visual Basic.NET code. Paste JUST ABOVE the ReportStart event.
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    Dim rpt As rptYourChildReportName
    
    Visual Basic.NET code. Paste INSIDE the ReportStart event.
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    rpt = New rptYourChildReportName()
    

    To write the code in C#

    C# code. Paste JUST ABOVE the ReportStart event.
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    private rptYourChildReportName rpt;
    
    C# code. Paste INSIDE the ReportStart event.
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    rpt = new rptYourChildReportName();
Caution: It is recommended that you do not create a new instance of the subreport in the Format event. Doing so creates a new subreport each time the section Format code is run, using a lot of memory.

To add code to display the child report in a subreport control on a parent report

  1. Add the SubReport control onto the design surface of the parent report.
  2. Double-click the detail section of the report to create a detail_Format event.
  3. Add code like the following to the handler to display a report in the SubReport control.

    To write the code in Visual Basic

    Visual Basic.NET code. Paste INSIDE the Format event.
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    Me.SubReport1.Report = rpt
    

    To write the code in C#

    C# code. Paste INSIDE the Format event.
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    this.subReport1.Report = rpt;
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