[dba-VB] VS2008: Report events

Hi Shamil

Sounds nice, however I have the Standard version only, so no CR for me.
Currently I don't have the need for drill down reports but it seems as if the native reporting engine has some capabilities in this area.

/gustav

>>> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru 19-09-2008 18:31 >>>
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

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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
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Hi Charlotte (et al)

Yes, I see it. Even a preview function is missing.

So everyone here are using these Active Reports or ..?

/gustav

>>> cfoust at infostatsystems.com 18-09-2008 23:05 >>>
I know, Gustav, but I just finished creating a small app in native
controls (requirement), and it reminded me of how ugly the granularity
of the native objects is.  That's especially true if users (and
developers) are accustomed to the rich features that have been
painstakingly overlaid on the native objects by the third party vendors.
Their efforts are worth every penny because it take you WAY, WAY longer
to achieve something remotely similar (when you can) while inventing
everything from scratch.

Charlotte Foust

 

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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VS2008: Report events

Hi Charlotte

Ouch! I was hoping for another tip less than $599 even though I must
admit the feature list is quite comprehensive.
Maybe for the next project.

/gustav

>>> cfoust at infostatsystems.com 18-09-2008 17:40 >>>
You do it by purchasing a 3rd party reporting engine, Gustav.  We use
DataDynamics ActiverReports, which are very similar to their Access
cousins.  Life is too short to work with the unmodified native controls!

Charlotte Foust 

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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:51 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [dba-VB] VS2008: Report events

Hi all

How do you simulate the events we have in Access when formatting and
printing a report in Visual Studio? The Events' pane is non-existing?

I read a picture from a file into an Image box - no problem, the
filename is a field of the record. 

But I have a flag to indicate if it should be turned upside down. Thus,
I guess, I would need to make the image box unbound, read the picture,
turn it upside down in code and pass the picture to the image box.

/gustav