Data Source Wizard

• Sep 24, 2025
• 2 minutes to read

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

Use the Data Source Wizard

You can invoke the Data Source Wizard in the following ways:

• Click the report’s smart tag, expand the XtraReportBase.DataSource property drop-down menu and click Add New to bind an existing report or its Detail Report band to data.

• Click a control’s smart tag, expand the XtraReportBase.DataSource property drop-down menu, and click Add New to connect the Chart, Pivot Grid, and Sparkline report controls to individual data sources.

You can also invoke the Report Wizard to add a new data-bound report to your application. The Report Wizard contains Data Source Wizard pages.

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

• Custom Connection String

To customize the list of displayed data connection types, use the DataSourceWizardSettings.AvailableDataSourceTypes property. You can also limit the number of SQL data providers displayed on the Select a Data Connection Type page. Use the SqlWizardSettings.AvailableDataProviders property.