WPF Reports
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
are you making money from devexpress libraries? if so, is it more than 499? if so, what's the big deal? pay the fucking 499 and call it a day. price of doing business. no brainer. :doh:
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Use DevExpress Office API and make PDF instead of reports. You may supply a word or excel document as template and just fill it. Way better than reports. If you want to stick with the reports way, then i guess you can pay the price and update, otherwise next time you decide to buy it, you will pay the full price. In general Reporting is an important piece in a LoB application, you know, printing invoices, other documents, etc. - so the paid tools, no matter the producer/manufacturer, are usually far superior than free ones :)
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Take a good look at the license terms; IIRC when DevExpress subscriptions expire you can keep using the last version available at the time of the expiration indefinitely :cool: Any time I looked at the alternatives, I found that the time spent in migrating and tweaking and fixing the open source equivalents was way more expensive than the DevExpress' retail price. Just my 2c
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Take a good look at the license terms; IIRC when DevExpress subscriptions expire you can keep using the last version available at the time of the expiration indefinitely :cool: Any time I looked at the alternatives, I found that the time spent in migrating and tweaking and fixing the open source equivalents was way more expensive than the DevExpress' retail price. Just my 2c
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
I found that the time spent in migrating and tweaking and fixing the open source equivalents was way more expensive than the DevExpress' retail price.
Amen!
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I've used devexpress reports in the past, and found the to be 1. superior to anything else I've seen so far 2. thus worth the price (which includes support, and their support guys are really doing a good job)
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Just found out my reporting library from DevExpress has expired. They want $499 to "upgrade" :mad::mad::mad: Just curious of anyone has used the [WPFReports](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=wpfreports) from CodePlex? Does it work? Any reason not to use it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
Any reason not to use it?
What, aside from the text that says "This is a very early alpha version not intented to be used in production environments", and the fact that it hasn't been migrated off the now-defunct CodePlex site? :-D There's a forked version on GitHub[^], which was last updated in 2016. The "alpha / don't use" warning is still there. It doesn't look like there's anyone actively working on it.
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