1. Create a new Visual Studio project.
2. From the Project menu, select Add New Item.
3. In the Add New Item dialog that appears, select ActiveReports 7 Section Report (code-based) and in the Name field, rename the file as rptMain.
4. Click the Add button to open a new section report in the designer.
5. From the Project menu, select Add New Item.
6. In the Add New Item dialog that appears, select ActiveReports 7 Section Report (code-based) and in the Name field, rename the file as rptSub.
7. Click the Add button to open a second new section report in the designer.

See Adding an ActiveReport to a Project for information on adding different report layouts.

1. On the detail section band, click the Data Source Icon.
   
2. In the Report Data Source dialog, on the XML tab, click the ellipsis (...) button next to File URL field.
3. In the Open File window that appears, navigate to Customer.xml and click the Open button. (The default installation path is C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\ComponentOne Samples\ActiveReports Developer 7\Data\customer.xml).
4. In the Recordset Pattern field, enter //CUSTOMER.
5. Click OK to save the data source and return to the report design surface.

1. On the design surface, select the pageHeader section and in the Properties window, set the Height property to 0.3.
2. On the design surface, select the grey area outside the report and in the Properties window, set the PrintWidth property to 6.5.
3. On the design surface, select the detail section and in the Properties window, set the CanShrink property to True to eliminate white space.
4. From the toolbox, drag the Label control onto the pageHeader section and in the Properties window, set the properties as follows. 

   Property Name	Property Value
   Text	Orders by Customer
   Location	0, 0 in
   Size	6.5, 0.25 in
   Font	Arial, 14pt, style=Bold
   Alignment	Center

5. From the toolbox, drag the controls onto the detail section and in the Properties window, set the properties of each control as follows.

   TextBox1

   Property Name	Property Value
   DataField	NAME
   Location	1.2, 0 in
   Size	2, 0.2 in

   Label1

   Property Name	Property Value
   Text	Customer Name:
   Location	0, 0 in
   Size	1.2, 0.2 in
   Font Bold	True

   Label2

   Property Name	Property Value
   Text	Orders:
   Location	1.2, 0.25 in
   Size	1, 0.2 in
   Font Bold	True

   Subreport

   Property Name	Property Value
   Location	2.3, 0.25 in
   Size	4, 1 in

1. On the design surface, select the detail section and in the Properties window, set the properties as follows. 

   Property Name	Property Value
   CanShrink	True
   BackColor	LightSteelBlue

   Tip: Even if you do not want colors in your finished reports, using background colors on subreports can help in troubleshooting layout issues.

2. On the design surface, right-click the pageHeader or pageFooter section and select Delete. Subreports do not render these sections, so deleting them saves processing time.
3. From the toolbox, drag the following controls to the detail section and in the Properties window, set the properties as follows.

   TextBox1

   Property Name	Property Value
   DataField	TITLE
   Name	txtTitle
   Location	0, 0 in
   Size	2.9, 0.2 in

   TextBox2

   Property Name	Property Value
   DataField	PRICE
   Name	txtPrice
   Location	3, 0 in
   Size	1, 0.2 in
   Alignment	Right
   OutputFormat	$#,##0.00 (or select Currency in the dialog)

Warning: 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, which uses a lot of memory.

To write the code in Visual Basic

1. Right-click the design surface of rptMain and select View Code.
2. At the top left of the code view of the report, click the drop-down arrow and select (rptMain Events).
3. At the top right of the code window, click the drop-down arrow and select ReportStart. This creates an event-handling method for the ReportStart event.
4. Add code to the handler to create an instance of rptSub.

The following example shows what the code for the method looks like.

Visual Basic.NET code. Paste JUST ABOVE the ReportStart event.	Copy Code
Dim rpt As rptSub

Visual Basic.NET code. Paste INSIDE the ReportStart event.	Copy Code
rpt = New rptSub

To write the code in C#

1. Click in the gray area below rptMain to select it.
2. Click the events icon in the Properties Window to display available events for the report.
3. Double-click ReportStart. This creates an event-handling method for the report's ReportStart event.
4. Add code to the handler to create a new instance of rptSub.

The following example shows what the code for the method looks like.

C# code. Paste JUST ABOVE the ReportStart event.	Copy Code
private rptSub rpt;

C# code. Paste INSIDE the ReportStart event.	Copy Code
rpt = new rptSub();

To add code to pass a subset of the parent report's data to the subreport

1. Double-click in the detail section of the design surface of rptMain to create a detail_Format event.
2. Add code to the handler to:
   • Create a new GrapeCity XMLDataSource
   • Type cast the new data source as rptMain's data source and set the NodeList to the "ORDER/ITEM" field
   • Display rptSub in the subreport control
   • Pass the new data source to the subreport

To write the code in Visual Basic

The following example shows what the code for the method looks like.

Visual Basic.NET code. Paste INSIDE the Format event.	Copy Code
Dim xmlDS As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Data.XMLDataSource xmlDS.NodeList = CType(CType(Me.DataSource, GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Data.XMLDataSource).Field("ORDER/ITEM", True), System.Xml.XmlNodeList) rpt.DataSource = xmlDS SubReport1.Report = rpt

To write the code in C#

The following example shows what the code for the method looks like.

C# code. Paste INSIDE the Format event.	Copy Code
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Data.XMLDataSource xmlDS = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Data.XMLDataSource(); xmlDS.NodeList = (System.Xml.XmlNodeList)((GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Data.XMLDataSource) this.DataSource).Field("ORDER/ITEM", true); rpt.DataSource = xmlDS; subReport1.Report = rpt;

• Click the preview tab to view the report at design time.

OR

• Open the report in the Viewer. See Using the Viewer for further information.