[AccessD] OT: Report Generator in .Net

Charlotte,

Thanks for the insights. Actually, subreports were like going back to
something older when I first started using them. Paradox for DOS was
set up that way. Then I got used to the the Paradox for Windows report
generator which didn't use subreports. You could just embed a table or
a multi-record object anywhere on a report...and embed others inside
of those. I'm still baffled by the lack of a grid in Access; that is,
fields contained within cells with borders you can define "globally."
Having to fiddle with the border properties of individual text boxes
in Access just doesn't seem logical...besides the time spent having to
line them up perfectly.

Anyway, Crystal Reports is what I've got to study for .NET. I'm sure
I'll get used to it eventually.

Steve Erbach


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:59:07 -0800, Charlotte Foust
<cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote:
> I didn't evaluate the report generator because I was still working in
> the Access world at the time the decision was made.  I disliked CR in
> VB, so I was quite happy to accept DataDynamics ActiveReports instead,
> which is what we settled on.  It handles subreports like Access and
> includes a wizard that does a fair job of converting Access reports.  It
> takes some skill to know what to do *after* the conversion to make it
> all work, but it isn't really that hard.  We build n-tier .Net apps, so
> we don't use the built in data connection handling and bind our reports
> to data entities instead.
> 
> Charlotte Foust