WPF Reporting

[Slacker007]

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

colouring in the resulting spreadsheet however they like

Because we all know that users just want colorful reports with lots of bling. Fuck the data, show me the color. :)

[Slacker007]

Ok. Only you can decide what is the correct method for you. Good luck. Report tools all suck at some level.

[Kevin Marois]

Slacker007 wrote:

Report tools all suck at some level.

Ain't that the truth.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

[Roger Wright]

Kevin Marois wrote:

Crysal Report....20 years ago they were great. $hit now.

No, they were $hit then, too.

Will Rogers never met me.

[Richard Deeming]

Or, you could go a bit further and re-use ASP.NET MVC's Razor: https://github.com/AlexCuse/RazorReport[^]

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[Chris Maunder]

COBOL lives.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Kevin Marois]

Chris Maunder wrote:

COBOL lives.

... in someone's mind.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

[Jon Sagara]

Have you looked at using RDLC? It's baked into Visual Studio, and apparently there's a ReportViewer that you can use with WPF. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh273267.aspx[^] I'm using it with great success in an ASP.NET MVC app.

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[NormDroid]

I wrote my own, it outputs to: Laser Matrix Fax Email PDF Excel HTML Text SQL And if anything is missing I just code it in.

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[Yuriy Loginov]

Yeah its based on SSRS. Personally I really like it.

[dandy72]

Chris Maunder wrote:

COBOL lives.

It scares me to read that coming from you, of all people. Which vital part of codeproject.com does it run?

[Lost User]

You know you can print WPF, right? So design your report in WPF, bind, print. Bob's your proverbial Mother's Brother.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

We use SSRS, both the RLD server version and the RDLC embedded in the apps, works well, has a WPF viewer (no Silverlight viewer though). Oh and Roger is correct Crystal Reports were shit 20 years ago as well!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Chris Maunder]

The really old bit.

cheers Chris Maunder

[pkfox]

It does indeed, name your price you contractors.

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

[Sentenryu]

Can't you just use razor / T4 to generate an html page? you can have anything on that page. Razor is a bit more complicated to get working out of mvc, but is possible and the templates look nicer than T4, but both work wonders.

[PaulFlats]

Create the reports in Ms Access, it's the easiest and fastest way to create reports and best reporting tool IMO.

[Gary Wheeler]

Have you ever created a non-trivial WPF document? It's a tremendous memory hog, and leaks like a sieve. I have an in-house report generator that can create HTML or WPF docs. For a 5MB HTML document, the corresponding WPF doc is 400-500MB. Loading that into a viewer control takes several minutes (consuming 1G or more of memory), which brings the entire application to a screeching, page-faulting halt. The gains from using WPF documents (data binding et al) aren't worth the costs.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

Visions of a drooling, geriatric hamster, multiple IV's hooked to its body, stumbling on a rusted, urine-encrusted wheel come to mind. Yes, I wanted that picture in my head this morning :sigh:.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

If your reports aren't that complicated, I don't see the problem with generating HTML, as others have suggested. I have an in-house reporting class that uses this approach. It generates HTML for readable documents and XML for import/export, both from the same report specification. While the HTML isn't fancy, that's only limited by your skill at CSS.

Software Zen: delete this;