Importing Reports Created with the Standalone or Web Report Designer
Should you need to import your existing reports created with the Standalone Report Designer or Web Report Designer our recommendation is to use the TRDX|TRDP converter available in the Import Report Wizard.
The Names of Report Items, Sections, Groups, and Components are converted to Report properties during conversion to CS/VB type. For that reason they must comply with the C# identifier naming rules and conventions. The failure to meet these name requirements will result in an error like "Identifier 'ItemName' is not valid".
The Standalone and Web Report Designers allow report item names to contain special symbols, like spaces, that may not be valid in C# names. You must ensure the Names of Report Items, Sections, Groups, and Components contain only allowed characters to avoid conversion problems.
The result will be a class inheriting Telerik.Reporting.Report, that can be loaded in Visual Studio Report Designer.
In general, Telerik Reports are
Telerik.Reporting.Reportobjects that can be serialized inTRDXfiles, or compressedTRDPfiles. The XML definition has a schema version that is updated in case of API changes in the released reporting functionality. It is important to use a version of Standalone Report Designer that matches the version of Telerik Reporting assemblies used to create the .NET report definition. For more information, please refer to XML Report Definition (XML Schema Versioning section). This guarantees that you are using the same version of the Telerik Reporting engine to create and process reports.