Robert L. Stewart
robert at webedb.com
Fri Sep 19 12:26:16 CDT 2008
And, all of that can be duplicated in SQL Server Reporting Services which is included with SQL Server since 2000. I am currently converting a very large Access application to ASP.net. And I will be using reporting services for all of the reporting. At 12:00 PM 9/19/2008, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:31:44 +0400 >From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> >Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VS2008: Report events >To: "'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming > issues.'" <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com> >Message-ID: <001401c91a75$3628a920$6401a8c0 at nant> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi Gustav, > >But in VS Professional and up you can design Crystal Reports (CR/Business >Objects) reports and distribute them with your .NET apps using free CR >runtime... > >Well, built-in VS CR report designer is limited in its *design time* >features but for the rest it doesn't have any limitations - I mean all CR >controls and runtime features are available... > >CR allows you to do many "tricks" unavailable in MS Access as e.g. "drill >down" live reports... (but with MS Access 2007 something like that "drill >down" reports are also possible to do? - I didn't try them but I've seen >many new events in MS Access 2007 Report object...) > >-- >Shamil