Using ASP.NET to Create Reports

A simple method of producing printable output is to create an ASP.NET web site that contains web pages populated with data. In this section, you’ll learn how to create a simple ASP.NET web project and some simple data-driven web pages. This will be a fairly basic overview of ASP.NET. If you want to learn more, the official ASP.NET web site provides a great resource.

When deployed onto a web server, the reports will be accessible through a URL that you’ll define during deployment. Later, you’ll learn how to create reports by using SQL Reporting Services, which also exposes its output through a web URL. The technique of linking the web pages together with screens is described later, in the “Linking Reports to LightSwitch” section.