That said, the Report Viewer will likely survive another decade. Many enterprises have thousands of RDL reports. Rewriting them in Power BI is non-trivial. The Report Viewer remains the only officially supported, free control for embedding SSRS reports into .NET desktop applications.
The Microsoft Report Viewer is a control that hosts reports locally within Windows Forms, WPF, or ASP.NET Web Forms applications. Unlike SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), which requires a dedicated server, the Report Viewer processes reports on the client or web server, eliminating the need for a separate reporting infrastructure. microsoft report viewer
// Simulate database retrieval DataTable dt = new DataTable(); dt.Columns.Add("CustomerName", typeof(string)); dt.Columns.Add("Amount", typeof(decimal)); dt.Rows.Add("John Doe", 500.00m); dt.Rows.Add("Jane Smith", 1200.50m); return dt; That said, the Report Viewer will likely survive