[AccessD] OT: Report Generator in .Net

You can use a datagrid in Access.  Were you looking for something else?

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Erbach [mailto:erbachs at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:53 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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
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