Telerik Reporting provides a simple, yet powerful, component called the ReportBook that allows multiple reports to be combined into one. Doing so makes displaying, printing, and exporting multiple reports a much simpler task for end users. Providing this type of functionality does leave one question though, "How are report parameters handled?" This entry will focus on providing the answers to that simple question.

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Creating a ReportBook
ReportBooks are supported in all three environments the ReportViewer supports, WinForms, Silverlight, and ASP.NET. Adding a ReportBook to each of these environments is very similar. This example focuses on using a ReportBook with the WinForms ReportViewer.

1. Create a WinForms Application
2. Add a reference to the project containing the reports.
3. Drag a ReportViewer from the ToolBox into the designer.
4. Drag a ReportBook from the ToolBox into the designer.
   
   A dialog will be displayed asking for the reports to be included in the ReportBook....

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