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Reporting Solution Recommendations?We're looking at upgrading our VS.NET Crystal Reporting solution with something more powerful and user friendly. We build distributable apps, so we're looking for a reporting solution which can be embedded within the product. The two most important criteria is ease of use and the ability to dynamically load reports on the fly (i.e. non-compiled reports). We need to be able to build reports and drop them into a directory and have them load up. We were using the "PUSH" data method in Crystal to feed our reports. This was done because we could not figure out a way to dynamically change the connection string in Crystal. When we were using Crystal, the PUSH method required us to create a dataset to define the columns of the query. Do any reporting solutions allow you to generate the column definitions directly from a SP - bypassing the need to generate the XML dataset? Also, do reporting solutions allow for dynamic changes to the connection string? In anycase, we've slimmed the choices down to: ActiveReports XtraReports Maybe... Crystal XI. Any other products that I should look at? Reporting Services has sort of been ruled out due to the lack of ASP.NET (Form Auth) integration and the large installation size (not embeddable). Thanks for any help! Try out the new ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0.
Show quoteHide quote "Spam Catcher" <spamhoneypot@rogers.com> wrote in message news:Xns97BFC06E27163usenethoneypotrogers@127.0.0.1... > Hi all, > > We're looking at upgrading our VS.NET Crystal Reporting solution with > something more powerful and user friendly. > > We build distributable apps, so we're looking for a reporting solution > which can be embedded within the product. > > The two most important criteria is ease of use and the ability to > dynamically load reports on the fly (i.e. non-compiled reports). We need > to be able to build reports and drop them into a directory and have them > load up. > > We were using the "PUSH" data method in Crystal to feed our reports. This > was done because we could not figure out a way to dynamically change the > connection string in Crystal. When we were using Crystal, the PUSH > method required us to create a dataset to define the columns of the > query. Do any reporting solutions allow you to generate the column > definitions directly from a SP - bypassing the need to generate the XML > dataset? Also, do reporting solutions allow for dynamic changes to the > connection string? > > In anycase, we've slimmed the choices down to: > > ActiveReports > XtraReports > Maybe... Crystal XI. > > Any other products that I should look at? Reporting Services has sort of > been ruled out due to the lack of ASP.NET (Form Auth) integration and the > large installation size (not embeddable). > > Thanks for any help! "Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.net> wrote in news:#uPB6gIdGHA.3632 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:> Try out the new ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0. I forgot to mention, I'm still on .NET 1.1 ; )re:
> I forgot to mention, I'm still on .NET 1.1 ; ) Upgrade ! It's free...Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP aspnetfaq.com : http://www.aspnetfaq.com/ asp.net faq : http://asp.net.do/faq/ foros de asp.net, en español : http://asp.net.do/foros/ =================================== Show quoteHide quote "Spam Catcher" <spamhoneypot@rogers.com> wrote in message news:Xns97BFC8F76EEE3usenethoneypotrogers@127.0.0.1... > "Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.net> wrote in news:#uPB6gIdGHA.3632 > @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > >> Try out the new ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0. > > I forgot to mention, I'm still on .NET 1.1 ; ) upgrade!! it's free
sql server 2005 is a wonderful platform; dont even consider 2000 at this time and use olap. if you've got performance problems use analysis services. "Juan T. Llibre" <nomailrepl***@nowhere.com> wrote in news:eP9A9vJdGHA.1208 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:>> I forgot to mention, I'm still on .NET 1.1 ; ) Don't I need VS.NET 2005?> > Upgrade ! It's free... re:
> Don't I need VS.NET 2005? No.For web development, you can use Visual Web Developer ( which is free... ). Get it at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx VWD is the exact same IDE which VS 2005 uses for web development. You cannot use it to develop desktop or console apps, though. To develop those, you need to install VB.NET 2005 Express or C# 2005 Express. You can get those at the same page. They're also free. Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP aspnetfaq.com : http://www.aspnetfaq.com/ asp.net faq : http://asp.net.do/faq/ foros de asp.net, en español : http://asp.net.do/foros/ =================================== Show quoteHide quote "Spam Catcher" <spamhoneypot@rogers.com> wrote in message news:Xns97C09DDDDA89Fusenethoneypotrogers@127.0.0.1... > "Juan T. Llibre" <nomailrepl***@nowhere.com> wrote in news:eP9A9vJdGHA.1208 > @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > >>> I forgot to mention, I'm still on .NET 1.1 ; ) >> >> Upgrade ! It's free... > > Don't I need VS.NET 2005? "Juan T. Llibre" <nomailrepl***@nowhere.com> wrote in Oh ya forgot about that... we're building commerical software so using an news:ujOeCRTdGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl: >> Don't I need VS.NET 2005? > > No. > > For web development, you can use Visual Web Developer ( which is > free... ). "express" edition is probably too limiting. We also use SourceGear Vault, and I'm not sure if that's compatible with the express products. In anycase, any suggestions for .NET 1.1 reporting? Reporting is such a common topic I was hoping to solicite more responses ; ) |
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