Report Creation in VB.net

[Byron Hopp]

How do most programmers produce reports from Visual Basic Dot Net. I just
got off the phone with the Crystal people (Business Objects) and they
indicated that the Crystal included in VB.Net is just a seed version. They
could not define what exactly that meant, but it didn't sound good. Does
anybody have a class which you can define columns and print repots without
utilizing a gui report generator. Something where you could pass a
recordset, or dataset at it automatically produces output?

Thanks,

Byron...

[Anand[MVP]]

If I remember right the version of Crystal that ships with VS is like MSDE. I
think you have license to use it for upto 5 people in production, if you have
more you need to buy the full version.

Have you tried SQL Reporting Services. It is free if you have a license for
SQL server.

I also remember seeing a project in sf.net called reports.net or something
like that. No idea if it is in a usable state though.

Rgds,
Anand M
VB.NET MVP
http://www.dotnetindia.com

"Byron Hopp" wrote:

How do most programmers produce reports from Visual Basic Dot Net. I just
got off the phone with the Crystal people (Business Objects) and they
indicated that the Crystal included in VB.Net is just a seed version. They
could not define what exactly that meant, but it didn't sound good. Does
anybody have a class which you can define columns and print repots without
utilizing a gui report generator. Something where you could pass a
recordset, or dataset at it automatically produces output?

Thanks,

Byron...