[dba-VS] Report Writing via Visual Studio

[Paul Hartland]

Will be having a look at this myself, I tried the report writer and adding
the final report into a VB2013 app, but never got it to work, hopefully
will be able to re-visit this at some point and sort it out.

On 5 August 2015 at 05:47, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> I can second that. I never bought any books on reports.
>
> /gustav
> ________________________________
> Fra: Salakhetdinov Shamil<mailto:mcp2004 at mail.ru>
> Sendt: ‎05-‎08-‎2015 01:02
> Til: Development in Visual Studio<mailto:dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
> Emne: Re: [dba-VS] Report Writing via Visual Studio
>
> Hi Brad and Dan --
>
> >>> you might find a good set of tutorials somewhere on the web.
> Here they are:  http://www.gotreportviewer.com/  and
> http://tinyurl.com/o5fzs8v
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Shamil
>
> >Tuesday, August  4, 2015 4:22 PM -05:00 from Dan Waters <
> df.waters at outlook.com>:
> >
> >Hi Brad,
> >
> >Yes - VS does have a report writer.  And it is very different from the one
> >in Access.  The best advice I can say is to buy a book on Visual Studio
> (not
> >VB or C#) to begin learning reports.  Because reports haven't changed for
> >several versions of VS, you can get an older book - at least back to VS
> >2010.  Or, you might find a good set of tutorials somewhere on the web.
> >
> >Good Luck!
> >Dan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: dba-VS [mailto:dba-vs-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Brad
> >Marks
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 1:17 PM
> >To:  dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com
> >Subject: [dba-VS] Report Writing via Visual Studio
> >
> >All,
> >
> >I have been using Microsoft Access for a lot of report writing tasks for
> the
> >past 5+ years.
> >
> >I am now starting to look at Visual Studio for possible desktop and web
> >applications.
> >
> >I have downloaded Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition and have written a
> >couple of small VB and C# programs.
> >
> >I sort of expected to find a Visual Studio report writer that was as good
> as
> >the Access report writer.  So far, I have not had much luck.  Is there a
> >good report writer in VS or is this obtained via some sort of add-on
> >product.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Brad
> >
>
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