This article aims to provide the insight into how to use FastReport.Net to merge two logically related CSV files into one. Storing data in CSV files is often very convenient. You can always open such files by any text editor and tweak them. But what if in one document there are references to data from the other document? You have to merge two files into one, for further convenient work with the CSV document. It can be done manually, which is rather time - consuming, or you can use Excel, that requires some knowledge of the macros. The third way is the most easy-to-handle - to use FastReport.
So, we have two CSV files. One contains a list of orders, the second one - a list of customers. We need to display the customers' names and phone numbers for each order. The Orders table has a foreign key "CustNo' to the Customers table. In turn, the Customers table has the primary "CustNo" key. As you understand, we will link the two t ...