The following example demonstrates how to implement a report storage to persist report definitions in a database or in any other custom location. This may be useful when providing end-users with the capability to create and customize reports using XtraReports End-User Designer, if it is necessary to have a common target for saving and sharing all reports.

The default report serialization mechanism does not support the serialization of a report's data source. The following examples illustrate how you can provide a custom XML serialization logic for a report's data source as well as its custom parameters.

- How to implement custom XML serialization of a report that is bound to a dataset;

- How to serialize an XPO data source;

- How to serialize parameters of custom types.