Some years ago I wrote an application for a client in VB 5 and Crystal.
The application has since been deployed by my client to many hundreds of
his customers.
Most of my work since then has been in Access but I now have to do major
new version of the application and I am learning the MSDN version of
vb.net and Crystal.
I found Crystal hard work compared to Access when I used it before - has
it got any better or should I look at Active Reports? AR seems to get
good revues on Component Source.
Please keep in mind that I have no control over the target PCs (W98, ME,
2000, XP) and don't want to clobber any applications that are already
installed. Any other suggestions will be gratefully received.
Thanks
--
John Heaser
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Personally, I would recommend ActiveReports. I used the version of Crystal
Reports that was bundled with Visual Studio and was burned. First, I
encountered, and reported several bugs, but Crystal never released a fix (at
least not for the bundled version). Also, when I upgraded the application
from VS2002 to VS2003, Crystal Reports stopped working on a client machine,
and was never able to resolve the issue. I converted the application over
to ActiveReports and everything went smoothly. It worked on the client
machine, and didn't have the bugs.
My two cents -- your mileage may vary,
Richard Rosenheim
"John Heaser" <jo*@heaser.com > wrote in message
news:ok******** ******@heaser.c om... Some years ago I wrote an application for a client in VB 5 and Crystal.
The application has since been deployed by my client to many hundreds of
his customers.
Most of my work since then has been in Access but I now have to do major
new version of the application and I am learning the MSDN version of
vb.net and Crystal.
I found Crystal hard work compared to Access when I used it before - has
it got any better or should I look at Active Reports? AR seems to get
good revues on Component Source.
Please keep in mind that I have no control over the target PCs (W98, ME,
2000, XP) and don't want to clobber any applications that are already
installed. Any other suggestions will be gratefully received.
Thanks
--
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