Data Source Wizard

• Nov 27, 2025
• 2 minutes to read

The Data Source Wizard enables you to configure a data source for a Report.

Use the Data Source Wizard

The Data Source Wizard allows you to do the following:

• Add a new data-bound report to your application using the Report Wizard, which includes the Data Source Wizard pages.

• Bind an existing report or its Detail Report band to data. To invoke the Data Source Wizard, click the report’s smart tag, expand the XtraReportBase.DataSource property’s drop-down menu, and click Add Report Data Source.

• Connect the Chart, Cross Tab, and Sparkline report controls to individual data sources. To invoke the Data Source Wizard, click the control’s smart tag, expand the DataSource property’s drop-down menu, and click Add Report Data Source.

Note

Do not include dots in the data source name (for example, Customers.Products.2014 is incorrect). The report engine uses dots to separate the data source name from query names.

Start Pages

The following pages appear when you invoke the Data Source Wizard:

• Select a Data Connection

• Select a Data Connection Type

Supported Data Source Types

The wizard supports the following data source types:

• SQL Databases

• Entity Framework

• Object

• Excel File

• JSON

• MongoDB

• XPO

• Data Federation

• No Data

• Custom Connection String