Chapter 13. Printing and Reporting
Prior to Silverlight 4, much was made of the fact that Silverlight didn't have any native printing abilities, and this was often used as an excuse to back the common belief that Silverlight was not ready for business applications (because printing/reporting is a vital requirement in most business applications). Alternative solutions to work around this omission were implemented that could provide reporting and printing support in Silverlight applications in the meantime, but Silverlight 4 introduced the long-awaited printing functionality developers were after. However, some of those alternative solutions tend to still be the most viable option for implementing reporting.
In this chapter, we will discuss several ...
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