Reference to a report object

When you work with a report as a class (see the "Storing a report and loading it" section), you may refer to the report objects directly. The following example demonstrates how to change the font of the "Text1" object contained in a report:

SimpleListReport report = new SimpleListReport();
report.Text1.Font = new Font("Arial", 12);

In other cases, you have to use the FindObject method of the Report object, if you need to get a reference to an object:

TextObject text1 = report1.FindObject("Text1") as TextObject;
text1.Font = new Font("Arial", 12);

To reference to a data source defined in a report, use the GetDataSource method of the Report object. This method takes a data source's alias as a parameter:

DataSourceBase ds = report1.GetDataSource("Products");