Generic way to style reports (CSS Style)

I want to make a CSS Style solution for my reports. I have few ideas related to this, changing the report properties on the fly, but I am not sure for which I should go for.

- We know that we can put expression on reports almost everywhere, and can also call custom code for setting up those expressions. i.e.

Public Shared Function GetValue(ByVal Key As String) As String

Dim myDataReader As SqlDataReader
Dim mySqlConnection As SqlConnection
Dim mySqlCommand As SqlCommand

mySqlConnection = New SqlConnection("server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;database=tempMIQB")
mySqlCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM [Properties] Where PropertyName='" & Key & "'", mySqlConnection)
mySqlConnection.Open()
myDataReader = mySqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)

If myDataReader.Read() Then
GetValue = myDataReader.Item("PropertyValue").ToString
Else
GetValue = "None"
End If

End Function

and in textbox or any where I can say =Code.GetValue("BGColor") or from .NET dll.

For going further on with this idea I can create an .NET dll and get the list from database or XML file. (Please give suggestions for performance/scalability issue.)

- second idea is to write a custom application (script) which can go through all the reports and change the color and fonts and every thing.

- third is to use parameters and use Array.IndexOf method to search for the value, but in this case i need to add dataset to all reports and, I think we cannot access report properties i.e. Parameters from custom code, just to make a generic function to access parameter value.

Hi Noordin,

I'm also trying to do this. Could you give me some leads as to how you accomplished it in the end?

Thanks,
Phil