create-report-programmatically.md

title	page_title	description	slug	tags	published	position	previous_url
Create a Report	Creating a Report with code	Create a Telerik Reporting report programmatically, by instantiating a Telerik.Reporting.Report object and setting its properties.	telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/program-the-report-definition/create-report-programmatically	create, report, programmatically, code	true	1	/programmatic-creating-report

Create a Report Programmatically

To create a Telerik report in code, you need to instantiate a Telerik.Reporting.Report object and set its properties. For example, this code will create a report and set up its data source:

Telerik.Reporting.Report report = new Telerik.Reporting.Report();
string selectCommand = @"SELECT * FROM Sales.Store";
string connectionString = "Data Source=(local)\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;Integrated Security=True";
Telerik.Reporting.SqlDataSource sqlDataSource = new Telerik.Reporting.SqlDataSource(connectionString, selectCommand);
report.DataSource = sqlDataSource;

Dim report As New Telerik.Reporting.Report()
Dim selectCommand As String = "SELECT * FROM Sales.Store"
Dim connectionString As String = "Data Source=(local)\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;Integrated Security=True"
Dim sqlDataSource As New Telerik.Reporting.SqlDataSource(connectionString, selectCommand)
report.DataSource = sqlDataSource

Next Steps

The code sample above demonstrates how to create an empty report. To create a functional report, you can add [sections]({%slug telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/program-the-report-definition/create-sections-programmatically%}) and [items]({%slug telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/program-the-report-definition/create-report-items-programmatically%}) in code.

When you create reports programmatically, you must use a [Custom Report Source Resolver]({%slug telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/host-the-report-engine-remotely/telerik-reporting-rest-services/rest-service-report-source-resolver/how-to-implement-a-custom-report-source-resolver%}) to display these reports in a Report Viewer that utilizes [Telerik Reporting REST Service]({%slug telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/host-the-report-engine-remotely/telerik-reporting-rest-services/overview%}) to render its reports.

You can also [programmatically export the report]({%slug telerikreporting/using-reports-in-applications/call-the-report-engine-via-apis/embedded-report-engine%}) that you created.

See Also

• Report