Reports and Non-database data sources?
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In the past, I've generated reports for my code purely with vb.net code. I do not use databases at all; all data is stored in classes within the code. Is there a manner in which collections of class objects can be utilized by Report software (such as Crystal Reports) or are there other report applications/components that I should look into? Ease of report generation is getting important, but I cannot implement database-versions of my code. Any suggestions or examples?
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In the past, I've generated reports for my code purely with vb.net code. I do not use databases at all; all data is stored in classes within the code. Is there a manner in which collections of class objects can be utilized by Report software (such as Crystal Reports) or are there other report applications/components that I should look into? Ease of report generation is getting important, but I cannot implement database-versions of my code. Any suggestions or examples?
Try this article maybe?[^] OK - it's a long way from Crystal Reports but it works on any collection that implements IList or ICollection... '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Try this article maybe?[^] OK - it's a long way from Crystal Reports but it works on any collection that implements IList or ICollection... '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
Unfortunately, this does pretty much what my code already does--designing the forms in *code* (rather laboriously I might add in my case). I'm really looking for something that will allow the report to be created via a designer of some sort.
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Unfortunately, this does pretty much what my code already does--designing the forms in *code* (rather laboriously I might add in my case). I'm really looking for something that will allow the report to be created via a designer of some sort.
How long can you wait? (I am adding visual designers stuff to it based on the "Shapes" sample but it is not going smoothly at present...) '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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How long can you wait? (I am adding visual designers stuff to it based on the "Shapes" sample but it is not going smoothly at present...) '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
I'm a patient man ;) I'd be very interested in trying it when you get the designers working. Being able to use a visual designer to arrange a header, body & footer for a form, with text and picture fields would go a long way to avoiding code-based forms.
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I'm a patient man ;) I'd be very interested in trying it when you get the designers working. Being able to use a visual designer to arrange a header, body & footer for a form, with text and picture fields would go a long way to avoiding code-based forms.
There is some limited designer support in this version in GotDotNet[^] - i.e. when you change the properties of a section in design mode it redraws the page to show the change. It does not do selectiong / dragging / resizing though...yet '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd