RDLC doesn't break line when the word is too long - reportviewer

I have a RDLC Report with a Tablix. The Tablix has a Row bound to a DataSet. The Row has a Textbox with a width of 400px.
If you get a long string with spaces from the DataSet, it will behave as expected and break the string in new lines, making the textbox grow vertically. The problem happens when you get a long string without spaces from the DataSet, the string doesn't break when it reaches the end of the textbox. Instead, the textbox will grow horizontally to fit the string.
How can I break the string and prevent the Textbox from growing horizontally?
After consulting How to maintain long text inside RDLC report column ?
Counting the characters doesn't solve the problem: the data is coming from a database, so it can be virtually anything. And since I'm not using a console font, the size of the letters will not be the same, so the number of '#' that fit in a space is not the same number of 'i'.
CanGrow Property is bound to the TextBox: So even though you can select a column and set CanGrow to true, it will not set the Column itself to stop growing horizontally, it will just set all selected Textboxes 'CanGrow' property to False.
CanGrow Property only prevent the row from growing vertically: Even if you click on a Column. CanGrow Property only affects Height.

I've found the solution by myself. The RDLC report accepts HTML as Expression, so all you need to do is:
Set a div with a fixed width inside the expression.
Set the MarkupType as HTML
See how the report code changes:
Before:
<Paragraphs>
<Paragraph>
<TextRuns>
<TextRun>
<Value>=Fields!TextoCliente.Value</Value>
<Style>
<FontSize>8pt</FontSize>
</Style>
</TextRun>
</TextRuns>
<Style />
</Paragraph>
</Paragraphs>
After:
<Paragraphs>
<Paragraph>
<TextRuns>
<TextRun>
<Value>="<div style='width:400px'>" & Fields!TextoCliente.Value & "</div>"</Value>
<MarkupType>HTML</MarkupType>
<Style>
<FontSize>8pt</FontSize>
</Style>
</TextRun>
</TextRuns>
<Style />
</Paragraph>
</Paragraphs>
You can set the Expression in the Designer viewer to avoid having to deal with the replacement of '<' with '&lt', in that mode, you can just type <.

Just in case anyone else finds this, there's a new answer in the possible duplicate link (How to maintain long text inside RDLC report column ?) that appears to be actually correct, and simpler than the accepted answer here or there.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/47495098/793387

I've decided to add pictures in the answer to help explain exactly what needs to happen.
I'll follow the steps from the MSDN tutorial: Change Row Height or Column Width (Report Builder and SSRS) to first show how to set a fixed height and then show how to do the same thing to set a fixed width.
To prevent a row from automatically expanding vertically
In Design view, click anywhere in the tablix data region to select
it. Gray row handles appear on the outside border of the tablix data region.
Click the row handle to select the row.
In the Properties pane, set CanGrow to False.
To prevent a column from automatically expanding horizontally
In Design view, click anywhere in the tablix data region to select
it. Gray column handles appear on the outside border of the tablix data region.
Click the column handle to select the column.
In the Properties pane, set CanGrow to False.
I sincerely hope this is detailed enough.

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How to Stop increasing the size of textbox when another textbox increase its size on report

I am working with Access Report and I have multiple fields in report.
3 of the field (Textbox) is Richtext (Memo field). It handles more than 255 characaters. if the textbox data increase it also increase the hight of the textbox. This behaviour is desireable and it works.
One of field contain the conditional formatting which makes the backcolor 'orange' or 'Red' based on condition.
The Problem it also increase the height of the textbox same as other field.
How can I disable the increasing of the height for that particular textbox?
I remove the field from the stacked Layout and now It is not increasing its size.
post anyother suggestion if its possible without removing the layout.

is it possible to anchor a control to another control?

Is it possible to anchor a control to another control?
Lets say i want my Button1 to keep its 4px distance from Textbox1 control without
using FlowLayoutTable control?
"Why would be this advantageous?" - one could ask
Well let's say you have a SplitContainer with a vertical splitter and you have Textboxes
in SplitContainer.Panel1 which are anchored to the left and right but their maximum size's
width is smaller than you allow to the SplitContainer.Panel1's width to have (maybe
because you want text to show up there or because additional padding or whatever,you name it)
Now let's say you also have a button next to Textbox1 and you dont want Textbox1 to be
overlapped by the Button1 because its extends to far.
If i want to have my textbox fill the SplitContainer.Panel1 in a fashion that it leaves space for
Button1 control while still both of them are anchored to the right how would i do it?
I extensively use TableLayoutPanels and FlowLayoutPanels to accomplish this. For you specific circumstance I would use a TableLayoutPanel with three columns and a row for each TextBox.
Column 1: Auto-width, contains Labels all with AutoSize = True.
Column 2: 100% width, contains TextBoxes all with Anchor = Left, Right.
Column 3: Auto-width, contains the Button in the appropriate row.
Next, I set all text boxes, except for the one next to the button, ColumnSpan = 2. Then just put the TableLayoutPanel in the SplitPanel and set Dock = Fill.
it will be a sequence in live which should be flow out from left and keep working lets the right side should be layout.
List item safty cares should be provided.
List item all things that use in this method should be provided and be check;

Empty pages in RDLC-Report

I have a rdlc report that conains a tablix, nothing other. The Tablix expands in horizontal direction to show days and in the vertical direction to show groups.
The tablix works as expected, as long as I set the width of the content area equal to the width of the tablix.
If I expand the content size to its fixed size (approximately PageWidth-PageBorders) and run the report, every second page is an empty page.
However the tablix only uses one page. Every odd page is absolutely empty. It seems that the tablix adds its horizontal expansion to the currently definied content width and calculates then the overflow.
The reportviewer Version is 3 (2010 Redistributable)
Does someone have a solution for this odd behaviour?
Update
If I export the report to excel, I see that there is on the right site of the tablix a column that is exactly as long as the generated items for the days. It seems realy to be a bug or a feature I don't see how to deactivate.
I also have tried to create the same construction from a table, and it resulted in the same problem, what not is astonishing, because the table is internally also a tablix.
Update 1
If I set the property "ConsumeContainerWhitespace" of the report to true, the above test version works. But if I place then other elements in the "white" area, the effect reocurrs.
Setting the page-property ConsumeContainerWhitespace=true (in the properties dialog, F4) has helped. However it was anyhow tricky to build the report correct. At the begining it worked only if I added all extra content to the page-header and footer. But this was not acceptable. After a lot of trying, I succeed in making the report as desired. However I don't really understand the logic behind.
I have in mind that I already have done such reports (growing in both directions, horizontally and vertically together) without any problems and I don't know what is difference to this report here. For this report, it's definitively reproducable that the ConsumeContainerWhitespace-property makes the difference. But why this never happens to me for similar reports I have done, I don't know. Also I don't know why I had first to circle around before the layout-engine accepted my design.
The best way to solved this problem is, for example for an A4 page where
Width=21 cm and Height=29.7 cm
Now Margin Left=1 cm and Right=1 cm so you are having a usable width of 19 cm.
When you have understand this basic calculation that means your problem is solved. You can set up the report page size properties by right clicking on the report property => pagesetup.
I was working with an RDLC report that was printing an extra blank page. I tried all the usual tricks, and everything I could think of, until I realized the problem was caused by an extra amount of visible whitespace in the right margin area of the report. One of the objects in the report (a "Rectangle") was a single pixel or two too wide, and this prevented resizing the visible space of the report. Once I removed all the extra width, the report started printing with the expected number of pages.
Visual Studio 2017 (15.7.5) + Microsoft Rdlc Report Designer extension (v14.2)
I had a similar problem, I solved it this way
For instance for width, the following equation should be satisfied
PageSize >= LeftMargin + BodySize + RightMargin
where to find BodySize?
Press F4 -> CLick somewhere inside the report -> you will find body property(look at size property, take the width value)
Where to find report PageSize?
click somewhere outside the report -> you will find report property ( look at PageSize (take its width value), and margins (Left, right, ..), take left and right margin values)
take values from these properties, and check if they meet
PageSize >= LeftMargin + BodySize + RightMargin
Check the "body" size, try to make it as wide and height as your real paper size but reduce only the margins.
There is a confusion there on the page design. Developers would think the report being designed is WYSIWYG, but actually it's NOT!! Microsoft reportviewer will take your designed page as the content!! and append the margins defined on the outside of your page, and turn out that your page can never fit in to one page!!
So, when you design a new report, focus on the content area, the client area, including your headers and footers, and allow margins to be appended on your outer border.
the solution is simple ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace=True (you find this in the property window for "report") you set the paper size in the main menu/ report/report properties for example to "A4" and then you check that paper size is larger then body + header + footer + margins.
I was having the same issue until I played with the report body's height and width. :)
Please select "Report" in the object selector at the top of the window.
and make the ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace = true
if the also same problem persist then, your rdlc report size should be less than your report body.!
I have meet this problem recently.
The root cause may be:
your report's body has some blank upside report Footer or somewhere else.
The solution is :
1, click the report body
2, go to the property window, you will see the body size property
3, check the body size, you may find a strange number like 9.6654in,1.5625in.
that means you have some blank upside the Footer, modify the height or width size till there is no blank you can see.
Go to Property F4
Select Body
Write width and height to 1cm
Visual studio will overwrite to the smallest Body possible
Done.
You need set report width property to actual print page width. In my case 6 inches helped.
You need to make sure your RDLC Report have :
ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace = true (open by click F4)
Report Body Size <= Page Size+margin Size. (open by Ctrl + Alt + D)
Page Footer may cause the problem too. So if you have one, it's better to place it as near as possible to the main content. In this case you don't need to set the Body.Height property.
My 4x2 inch label was printing 3 extra pages for a one page report.
To fix it, I reduced the Body.Size attribute to be same or smaller than the Report.PageSize minus the summed respective Report.Margins.
Try this one,
Just make sure that all Data the needed is in the report,
Then Select the Table or the Matrix and make it squeeze to the left and if needed to the Top Left Corner until your white Page Problem is Done.
But make sure that the cells are squeezed in the right manner, Be gentle (I hope you got it !!)
Ok, Bye
Or you can just graphically resize your report design, to the exact bottom of the last report control or label.
Or add a footer section to create some space.
I thought this important enough to put here, especially since every day more of the critical information we need to do our jobs keeps disappearing:
From response to The "Every Other Page Is Blank" Feature
Many Reporting Services users ask this question:
"I'm rendering to a physical page format (PDF, Image, Print) and for
some reason a blank page gets inserted between all of the other pages
in the report. Thank you, Reporting Services, for the free pages.
It's a charming feature, but paper ain't free and I'm getting paper
cuts pulling out every other blank page after it's printed. How do I
make it stop?!"
To which I reply:
This is almost always caused by the Body of your report being too wide
for your page. Make sure that the Width of the Body is less than the
physical page size, less the margins. For those of you who are into
the math thing, make sure that:
Body Width <= Page Width - (Left Margin + Right Margin)
For physical page renderers, it's important to keep in mind the
concept of Usable Area. The Usable Area is the amount of space left
on a page for your report to be drawn after reserving space for
margins, headers and footers, and column spacing (for multi-column
reports).
Horizontal usable area:
X = Page.Width - (Left Margin + Right Margin + Column Spacing)
Vertical usable area:
Y = Page.Height - (Top Margin + Bottom Margin + Header Height + Footer
Height)
Any time objects on your report (including the Body itself) extend
past the usable area either because they are defined like that or
because they grow at runtime, the physical page renderers have no
choice but to break onto a new page.
Make sure Body size is cm , not in(inch)
For me when I increase the width for pagesize report from 21 to 23 cm , It was not generating extra empty page.
Because of few elements total size of my report's element was greater than 21 and less than 23, that is why I changed to 23cm and works for me.
In my case I have only one page and I was working with .rdl file.

How can I center the heading in a column on a DataGridView?

I have a strange problem and it's probably a simple fix, but after much research, I cannot seem to find a solution.
I have a DataGridView on which I'm trying to center the column headings, but the result is a left bias in the centering—almost like an indenting problem. I've seen a few posts on this issue on a site or two, but never a solution. Any thoughts?
Here's the statement I'm currently trying to use:
DataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter
The code you've posted is on the right track: you need to set the ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property of your DataGridView control.
However, you need to create a new DataGridViewCellStyle class and assign that to the ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property. You can't modify the Alignment property as your code sample shows unless you have assigned a DataGridViewCellStyle class to this property.
So, for example, the following code achieves perfectly centered column headings in a blank project:
Dim dgvColumnHeaderStyle As New DataGridViewCellStyle()
dgvColumnHeaderStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter
myDataGridView.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle = dgvColumnHeaderStyle
In the future, you may find it easier to do these types of things from the Designer. If you still need to do it yourself through code, you can check the *.Designer.vb file that is created to see how it was done.
EDIT: I just now noticed the slight offset you're referring to in the columns—it does indeed create a little extra padding to the right of each header. It's not a bug, though. There's a much simpler explanation.
Like a ListView, the DataGridView supports sorting by columns. Therefore, each column header reserves enough space to display the sort glyph (usually an arrow) when calculating center justification.
If you want the column headers to be perfectly centered, you'll need to disable sorting. Set the SortMode property for the column to "NonSortable". This should prevent space from being reserved for the sort glyph whenever the column text is center or right justified.
If you want to center or use any other alignment style of the Column Header text you can use this
dgvResults.Columns("ColumnName").HeaderCell.Style.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter

Checkboxes in Rdlc Report

I am creating rdlc report and i have issue that i got some bool type object fields and now i have to show checkboxes. but there is nothing i found for this solution to show checkboxes in table.
Is there anyone who know that how i can implement that thing?
Maybe you can put image there, depend on true or false, just display different pic. LOL
If checkbox is true I set Chr(254) else show unchecked checkbox using Chr(168).
Chr(254): This is decimal value for Wingdings character 254 its shows like checked check box image.
Chr(168): This is decimal value for Wingdings character 168 its shows like rectangle box like unchecked check box image.
I had a requirement that the checkboxes have a background color. I liked the simplicity of a text-based rather than image-based approach, so I used a variation of the popular Wingdings-font method: I used a small, square textbox with a thin border and the specified background color, set it to use a bold, sans-serif font, and used this expression for the text value:
=IIf(Fields!SomeBool.Value, "X", "")
If you still want a checkmark rather than an X, you can use Wingdings 2 font and this expression:
=IIf(Fields!SomeBool.Value, Chr(80), "")
In either case, you may have to adjust the font size and/or box size to keep the result square; my first take was taller than wide because it expanded vertically to accommodate the font.
Or you can set the textbox placeholder to render tags as html and then put this html in: Or you can set the Placeholder expression to support HTML and then set up the following html code:
<font face="Wingdings 2" color="green">#Html.Raw(((char)0x51).ToString())</font>
You should put in the character of the wingdings that you want.
This way, only part of the text can be wingdings.
Wingdings 2
Finally I got solution
here is the link download the project and run it.
http://uploading.com/files/2mmf34m8/Nestle%2BNew.rar/
i have developed class and then used list to set bool variable true/false. while on other hand i used image control in rdlc report To set image.
You just need to set image path which are already in image folder.
Cheers.