BCS Post Graduate Diploma in IT Project Report

BCS Post Graduate Diploma in IT has a IT project which student should complete. Below is the project report which my wife has done. This can be use as a reference to do the BCS project report

BCS Post Graduate Project Report

How to create Multi Valued Optional Parameters Report with Telerik Reporting

Some times we may need to implement reports which has the ability to pick multiple parameters. If no parameter is selected it should run for all the values. Let's see how this can be achieved using Telerik Reporting. As an example let's consider a system which has banks and branches. Banks have many branches (One to many relationship). In this example banks are parameters. It's multi value. 

                                                                         Fig 1

If you take the Fig 1 User has run the report by selecting two banks. Then report will be generate for 2 banks. 

                                       

Fig 2

If you take the Fig 2 User has run the report without selecting any banks.Then report will be generated for all the banks. 

Let's see how we can achieve this kind of functionality using telerik reporting. 

After creating a new telerik report we have to add data source. In this example we will add Sql Data Source. To achieve this multy value parameter scenario we can't use stored procedures. We have to define SQL Statement in the report it self. 

Here is the Sql statement to achieve this functionality.  

SELECT B.BankName,B.ChequeNumberFormat,B.Active,                 BB.BranchName,BB.BranchCountry,BB.BranchSortCode

 FROM dbo.Bank B INNER JOIN dbo.BankBranch BB ON B.BankID = BB.BankID

 AND ((B.BankID IN  (@bankIds)) or COALESCE(@bankIds,null) is NULL) 

We have to define the parameter as B.BankID IN  @bankIds. When parameter is not selected by user to display records for all the banks, we have to add COALESCE(@bankIds,null) is NULL.

This part is not much documented in Telerik reporting documentation. 

                                                                    Fig 3

And it's really important to define parameters MultiValue  property as True during the setting Data source operation. Otherwise you will get an error. 

This can be achieved using Entity frame work data Sources as well. I hope to publish a post how to implement this scenario using Entity framework in the future. Please comment if you have anything to say regarding this. 

Convert List to a ObservableCollection

Observable Collections are heavily used in Silverlight, WPF Applications instead of Lists. Observable Collection works essentially like a regular collection but it implements INotifyCollectionChanged and INotifyPropertyChanged interfaces. Because of that you can get to know when Collection is changed. ObservableCollection are optimized for databinding  purposes.

Sometimes you will need to convert your list to an ObservableCollection. This Extension method enables that. 

public static class CollectionExtensions
{
        public static ObservableCollection ToObservableCollection(this IEnumerable coll)
        {
            var c = new ObservableCollection();
            foreach (var e in coll)
                c.Add(e);
            return c;
        }
 }

Happiness - 2

• Happiness is my birthright.

• I forgive myself for all of my mistakes--and celebrate the lessons they let me learn.

• I am enough.  

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

• When in doubt, breathe.

Source http://spoiledyogi.blogspot.com/