Applications Accessing Report Servers - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 510

Regarding user experience, the WPF declarative language based tool is far ahead
of the Windows Forms applications. The Presentation Core and Presentation
Framework bring in innumerable class library support to make this possible. For
more information, see the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
bb546194(v=vs.90).aspx .

In this section, we will create a WPF project and embed a Web Browser control.
Hosting Web Browser control in an application makes it for in-situ linking of Web
documents with the greatest ease as the control provides the ability to navigate a
Web document, set up history, and help creating favorites in addition to rendering
and parsing of HTML. Web Browser control is implemented through the shdocvw.
dll and in turn hosts the mshtml.dll (rendering and parsing of HTML). Web
Browser control is hosted in IEXPLORE.EXE , the internet explorer. Read more on
this control at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.
controls.webbrowser.aspx .

Hands-on exercise 10.2 - accessing Report
Server URLs in a WPF project
We will create a WPF project and embed a Web Browser control as follows:

1. Launch Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (or equivalent).

2. Click on File and then click on New Project… .

3. Click on WPF Application in the templates. Provide a name for the project,

herein WpfRep .

The project is created and you will find the project's folder as shown in the
Solution Explorer .