Haslett, Andrew
andrew.haslett at ilc.gov.au
Wed Jun 2 05:10:56 CDT 2004
SQL Reporting has been out for a few months now and is quite good. Has many of the features of the Access report designer (which is still the best going around in my opinion). Free if you already have a SQL Server License. You need Visual Studio.net to design them though. Not as powerful as Crystal... yet... Active Reports is a competitor of Crystal Reports. Some consider it better, however I haven't used it myself. It's probably cheaper than Crystal though... There are .Net versions (or add-ins) for both Crystal and Active Reports. That's said, .Net has a number of built-in graphical 'libraries' such as GDI based that you can you to produce quite nice reports (with graphs) in HTML. And since it's easier to retrieve and handle datasets and objects in .Net, its not difficult to output this data in a report format. Since its HTML, very little overhead and no plug-ins required. I'm starting to port a number of our existing Crystal Reports across to SQL Reporting Services reports or just plain HTML since it's easy to do in .Net. Been great so far. SQL Reporting: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/default.asp Crystal Reports: http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/default.asp Active Reports: http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/ProductMenu.aspx?Product=ARNET Cheers, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 7:03 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] VB.NET Good question Rocky! Charlotte, what is ActiveReports? /gustav > Crystal or ActiveReports (we use the latter). There is also MS SQL > Reports, although I'm not sure that is actually out yet. > Charlotte Foust > -----Original Message----- > From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software [mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:48 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] VB.NET > What reporting features are in vb.net? Or do you need something like > Crystal to do reports? > Rocky -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ ******************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may contain information protected by law from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. No warranty is given that this email or files, if attached to this email, are free from computer viruses or other defects. They are provided on the basis the user assumes all responsibility for loss, damage or consequence resulting directly or indirectly from their use, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not.