Creating HTML reports

[bob]

Hello,
I'm trying to create reports in my application using HTML. I don't
want to mess around typing in stuff like
html = "<Table>blah</Table>"

I want something like
row = new HTMLRow("Some text 1", "Some text 2");
table = new HTMLTable(row);
header = new HTMLHeader("Report header");
page = new HTMLPage(header, table);

I think mshtml should help but I haven't had much luck with it, is
there a guide anywhere?

Has anyone had any experiance with this sort of thing?

Thanks,
Bob

[James Hancock]

It will be worse, not better.

You can take a look at some of the work that Tim Anderson has done @
http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/index.php

Make sure you check out the forms he's setup, because there is a lot of
information about usage there.

James Hancock

"bob" <bo**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I'm trying to create reports in my application using HTML. I don't
want to mess around typing in stuff like
html = "<Table>blah</Table>"

I want something like
row = new HTMLRow("Some text 1", "Some text 2");
table = new HTMLTable(row);
header = new HTMLHeader("Report header");
page = new HTMLPage(header, table);

I think mshtml should help but I haven't had much luck with it, is
there a guide anywhere?

Has anyone had any experiance with this sort of thing?

Thanks,
Bob

[bob]

Hi James,

thanks for replying.

I've looked at that code and you're right; using MSHTML to create HTML
seems to be absolutly horrific (why am I not surprised).

But if I just go straight in and start typing HTML into my code will
it not be difficult to make it consistant? Won't composing reports
from a load of seperate objects be a pain if they just answer strings?
How will I know if a report object is a page or just a table, they'll
both be strings so how can I reliably add more info to a report?

Is this really the best way to create reports in C#?

heading = CreateHeading();
anObjReport = anObject.CreateReport();
page = "<Page>" + heading + anObjReport + "</Page>";

Bob

"James Hancock" <~j****@darwinconsulting.com> wrote in message news:<#R**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

It will be worse, not better.

You can take a look at some of the work that Tim Anderson has done @
http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/index.php

Make sure you check out the forms he's setup, because there is a lot of
information about usage there.

James Hancock

"bob" <bo**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b0**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello,
I'm trying to create reports in my application using HTML. I don't
want to mess around typing in stuff like
html = "<Table>blah</Table>"

I want something like
row = new HTMLRow("Some text 1", "Some text 2");
table = new HTMLTable(row);
header = new HTMLHeader("Report header");
page = new HTMLPage(header, table);

I think mshtml should help but I haven't had much luck with it, is
there a guide anywhere?

Has anyone had any experiance with this sort of thing?

Thanks,
Bob

[Scott Allen]

Hi Bob:

Maybe I'm missing something or maybe you've already tried this, but
have you tried a DataGrid control? You wouldn't have to manually setup
any rows.

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On 7 Jan 2004 04:52:16 -0800, bo**********@hotmail.com (bob) wrote:

Hi James,

thanks for replying.

I've looked at that code and you're right; using MSHTML to create HTML
seems to be absolutly horrific (why am I not surprised).

But if I just go straight in and start typing HTML into my code will
it not be difficult to make it consistant? Won't composing reports
from a load of seperate objects be a pain if they just answer strings?
How will I know if a report object is a page or just a table, they'll
both be strings so how can I reliably add more info to a report?

Is this really the best way to create reports in C#?

heading = CreateHeading();
anObjReport = anObject.CreateReport();
page = "<Page>" + heading + anObjReport + "</Page>";

Bob

"James Hancock" <~j****@darwinconsulting.com> wrote in message news:<#R**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

It will be worse, not better.

You can take a look at some of the work that Tim Anderson has done @
http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/index.php

Make sure you check out the forms he's setup, because there is a lot of
information about usage there.

James Hancock

"bob" <bo**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I'm trying to create reports in my application using HTML. I don't
> want to mess around typing in stuff like
> html = "<Table>blah</Table>"
>
> I want something like
> row = new HTMLRow("Some text 1", "Some text 2");
> table = new HTMLTable(row);
> header = new HTMLHeader("Report header");
> page = new HTMLPage(header, table);
>
> I think mshtml should help but I haven't had much luck with it, is
> there a guide anywhere?
>
> Has anyone had any experiance with this sort of thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob