reporting for winforms apps...
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well i have vs2008 pro and discover that is doesn't come with the crystal reports bits WHICH you may tell me is a blessing and from my previous experience with them i would agree BUT the client apparently uses them ... i do however have a crystal reports viewer control that i can drop onto a form (or presumably create dynamically on a form etc etc) and view the existing reports they have yes? is there a decent reporting package out there for free or for cheap? it doesn't have to do anything fancy at all ... basic business reporting ... it just needs a designer for creating new reports and a runtime control i can use to show / print / export them thanks in advance
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Hey, Lauren. I'm not sure what all you need, but if you do an Add New Item and select Reporting on the left, you'll see Crystal Report as an option. I'm not sure if there are things in the full version that aren't here, but will this get it done for you?
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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well i have vs2008 pro and discover that is doesn't come with the crystal reports bits WHICH you may tell me is a blessing and from my previous experience with them i would agree BUT the client apparently uses them ... i do however have a crystal reports viewer control that i can drop onto a form (or presumably create dynamically on a form etc etc) and view the existing reports they have yes? is there a decent reporting package out there for free or for cheap? it doesn't have to do anything fancy at all ... basic business reporting ... it just needs a designer for creating new reports and a runtime control i can use to show / print / export them thanks in advance
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Yes Windward Reports[^] rocks. You design the reports in Microsoft Office so it's very easy to use. disclaimer - I work for Windward.
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Yes Windward Reports[^] rocks. You design the reports in Microsoft Office so it's very easy to use. disclaimer - I work for Windward.
ummmmm $6995.00 ??? :wtf: it may well rock but i'll never know ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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ummmmm $6995.00 ??? :wtf: it may well rock but i'll never know ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Yep, that is always the question - time saved vs cost. Our customers report that we're about 20 times faster for designing reports (their numbers, not ours). So if a group is designing reports day in and day out, that 7K can save several hundred thousand. On the flip side if you need to spend 2 days to create 1 or 2 reports and that's it, free can be a better price than 7K and only spending 1 hour.
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Yep, that is always the question - time saved vs cost. Our customers report that we're about 20 times faster for designing reports (their numbers, not ours). So if a group is designing reports day in and day out, that 7K can save several hundred thousand. On the flip side if you need to spend 2 days to create 1 or 2 reports and that's it, free can be a better price than 7K and only spending 1 hour.
yah the price for your product is more than i'm making for this small job so it doesn't really fit :|
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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Hey, Lauren. I'm not sure what all you need, but if you do an Add New Item and select Reporting on the left, you'll see Crystal Report as an option. I'm not sure if there are things in the full version that aren't here, but will this get it done for you?
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
i looked at that but it seems you have to embed the reports into the executable which kinda sucks ... i found a thing called "fyiReporting" which is free and based on RDL and seems to work reasonably well :)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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i looked at that but it seems you have to embed the reports into the executable which kinda sucks ... i found a thing called "fyiReporting" which is free and based on RDL and seems to work reasonably well :)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Ack. My bad. I'm working on web stuff at the moment, probably an entirely different planet from what they offer on the forms side of the street.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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well i have vs2008 pro and discover that is doesn't come with the crystal reports bits WHICH you may tell me is a blessing and from my previous experience with them i would agree BUT the client apparently uses them ... i do however have a crystal reports viewer control that i can drop onto a form (or presumably create dynamically on a form etc etc) and view the existing reports they have yes? is there a decent reporting package out there for free or for cheap? it doesn't have to do anything fancy at all ... basic business reporting ... it just needs a designer for creating new reports and a runtime control i can use to show / print / export them thanks in advance
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
I used Active Reports several years ago, but now I just write XML files and use XSLT to produce the final product.
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well i have vs2008 pro and discover that is doesn't come with the crystal reports bits WHICH you may tell me is a blessing and from my previous experience with them i would agree BUT the client apparently uses them ... i do however have a crystal reports viewer control that i can drop onto a form (or presumably create dynamically on a form etc etc) and view the existing reports they have yes? is there a decent reporting package out there for free or for cheap? it doesn't have to do anything fancy at all ... basic business reporting ... it just needs a designer for creating new reports and a runtime control i can use to show / print / export them thanks in advance
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Maybe the Microsoft.ReportViewer [^]?
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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well i have vs2008 pro and discover that is doesn't come with the crystal reports bits WHICH you may tell me is a blessing and from my previous experience with them i would agree BUT the client apparently uses them ... i do however have a crystal reports viewer control that i can drop onto a form (or presumably create dynamically on a form etc etc) and view the existing reports they have yes? is there a decent reporting package out there for free or for cheap? it doesn't have to do anything fancy at all ... basic business reporting ... it just needs a designer for creating new reports and a runtime control i can use to show / print / export them thanks in advance
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
the free ms sql 2008 express has reporting services included as advanced services [^] and you can also use the new charting controls[^] along with a related blog[^]. Good stuff sure to impress a client if used correctly! the express edition has limitations[^], like the way it processes multiple indexes on a table, but should be fine for most implementations short of a full enterprise scale solution.
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Maybe the Microsoft.ReportViewer [^]?
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
thats the one that makes you embed the reports in the executable as part of the project ... i want to be able to create new reports and send them off without rebuilding and redistributing the app to all users ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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thats the one that makes you embed the reports in the executable as part of the project ... i want to be able to create new reports and send them off without rebuilding and redistributing the app to all users ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
Well, you could write your own reporting tool[^] if you are feeling brave mad.
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Well, you could write your own reporting tool[^] if you are feeling brave mad.
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
fortunately (for me) someone has already done me the favor with "fyiReporting" :)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"