Reporting

[Peter Morris]

Hi all

Which reporting tool should I use in VS2005 if I want to report on a
collection of objects rather than a Dataset?

I have components to do all of the databinding + object fetching etc, I just
need to know which reporting tool I should use within my app rather than
running one in SQL Server.

Thanks

Pete

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Reporting

Well, DataSet (despite the name) isn't limited to data from databases
(you can fill one at runtime); but more to the point, I have
successfully used the MS report-viewer to write rdlc reports based on
objects. The problem, however, is that it has a distressing habit of
losing the bindings if you change the schema at all - kinda like the
forms IDE, but perhaps worse. IIRC, you just use (on the report-viewer
control) .LoadReportDefi nition(), .SetParameters( ),
and .DataSources.Ad d() .

Other reporting frameworks are available - YMMV.

Marc

[Bob Johnson]

Re: Reporting

You'll get the knee-jerk "use Crystal, dude"...

but you'd do very well to take a look at ActiveReports by DataDynamics
(http://www.datadynamics.com/default.aspx). IMHO ActiveReports is perfect
for anyone wanting to programmaticall y work with reports. I has no
proprietary scripting language and is much more straight-forward to work
with than Crystal. You can bind reports to any practically anything in .NET
that is bindable - including your custom collections and of course the usual
gang of suspects (DataSet etc).

-HTH


"Peter Morris" <support@NOdroo pySPAMeyes.comw rote in message
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Hi all
>
Which reporting tool should I use in VS2005 if I want to report on a
collection of objects rather than a Dataset?
>
I have components to do all of the databinding + object fetching etc, I
just need to know which reporting tool I should use within my app rather
than running one in SQL Server.
>
Thanks
>
Pete
>

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: Reporting

"Peter Morris" <support@NOdroo pySPAMeyes.comw rote in message
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Which reporting tool should I use in VS2005 if I want to report on a
collection of objects rather than a Dataset?

Depends on your requirements, but if you just need to get a report up on
screen with the option to print etc, I'd use a PDF generator.

This is my preferred one: http://www.siberix.com


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

http://www.markrae.net

[Robert Fuchs]

Re: Reporting

IMHO the best is http://www.devexpress.com/Products/N...ms/XtraReports
Online Demos here: http://demos.devexpress.com/XtraReportsDemos

regards. Robert

[sloan]

Re: Reporting

I concur on the ActiveReports.

They are able to bind to IList's I believe.

Based on this article:

http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/2148.aspx

You see you have to artificially take "real" objects/collections and put
them into a DataSet for Crystal.

I hate Crystal Reports, fyi. It has been screwing me for over 10 years now.
(with VB4).






"Bob Johnson" <A@B.comwrote in message
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You'll get the knee-jerk "use Crystal, dude"...
>
but you'd do very well to take a look at ActiveReports by DataDynamics
(http://www.datadynamics.com/default.aspx). IMHO ActiveReports is perfect
for anyone wanting to programmaticall y work with reports. I has no
proprietary scripting language and is much more straight-forward to work
with than Crystal. You can bind reports to any practically anything in
.NET that is bindable - including your custom collections and of course
the usual gang of suspects (DataSet etc).
>
-HTH
>
>
"Peter Morris" <support@NOdroo pySPAMeyes.comw rote in message
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>Hi all
>>
>Which reporting tool should I use in VS2005 if I want to report on a
>collection of objects rather than a Dataset?
>>
>I have components to do all of the databinding + object fetching etc, I
>just need to know which reporting tool I should use within my app rather
>than running one in SQL Server.
>>
>Thanks
>>
>Pete
>>

>
>

[Andrus]

Re: Reporting

Best is

https://www.fyireporting.com

Open source, Apache license.

Version 3 released Yesterday.

Andrus.


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Subject: Reporting

Hi all
>
Which reporting tool should I use in VS2005 if I want to report on a
collection of objects rather than a Dataset?
>
I have components to do all of the databinding + object fetching etc, I
just need to know which reporting tool I should use within my app rather
than running one in SQL Server.
>
Thanks
>
Pete
>

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Reporting

Can I just say "ta" to all the other respondants... some other
interesting avenues to look at in place of the default MS offerings...

(plus like everybody else, I loathe Crystal... I'm kinda sorry y'all
reminded me of it ;-p)

Marc