Firstly, I both love and hate WPF. I hated the grind of getting the foundations of my current project up and running, but once I had some momentum it was a real time saver. And the outcome is a nicer UI as well. As for performance with large sets of data, perhaps you can consider using a control that implements some sort of virtualization of it's rows. For example, the xCeed WPF grid can host 1000s of rows, but will only be consuming UI memory for those that are currently displayed (and maybe a buffer).

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http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SurveyRESULTSWhatNETFrameworkFeaturesDoYouUse.aspx This was an interesting, fairly big survey of the .NET space at least.

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Yeh, lots of room for mistakes on both sides. Why don't you change report writers? There must be something better out there. 1. Active reports. Nice .NET integration, but wasn't bug free and not as flexible as CR. 2. Oracle reports. Some very cool ideas, but an 80's designer, and oh yeh you need Oracle. 3. MS Access. Chuckle.

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Hey dude, don't call me dude. I'm sure you can safely state that you have vast experience, but I'm not sure how you can speak of everyone else (including me)? I have to say that this debate is somewhat paradoxical. If CR is so bad, for so many years, why hasn't everyone forgotten about it and moved on to a superior product? One explanation is that perhaps creating a sophisticated and flexible report writer is an extremely difficult undertaking (I haven't tried myself). And hence, prone to be expensive, complicated to use, and buggy. "Perfection is spelled p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s" - Somebody or Other.

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How many times have I heard complaints about Crystal reports. Usually from people who don't the have the mental strength to try and understand how it works. Face up to it, if you want to write complex reports with subtle behaviour, you are going to have to use a complicated tool. If you are using a complicated tool, it is going to take some effort to master it. If you are using a complicated tool, there will be lots of room for mistakes. If you want a reporting tool that you can learn in a few hours, lets you do everything with clicks / drag drop, don't bother with Crystal. But don't expect to be able to solve any complex problems either.

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Funny it sounds like you guys are VB programmers. Otherwise how come you know so much about the syntax?

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