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tlabs





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I'm completely new to Vb2005 and would like to know what reporting tool is best to use with VB and how to integrate the two to create reports that are printable and can be sent to either a word or pdf document

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Paul Domag





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Hi,

There are currently 2 report creation tools available in VS2005. These are Crystal Reports and RDLC. Here's a FAQ Sheet to learn more about them:

http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/SSRSandCR_Conclusion.asp

I myself is using Crystal Reports, and yes they have an exporting to PDF, word and Excel. I preferred Crystal Reports over RDLC simply because I really liked the designing environment of Crystal. Its much friendlier to use.

cheers,

Paul June A. Domag



 
 
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And there are many 3rd party reporting tools

ActiveReports
http://www.datadynamics.com

XtraReports
http://www.devexpress.com

Crystal Reports
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/default.asp

Of course with these 3rd party tools - you have to buy them but its often a lot simpler and quicker to by a component than to try and hand craft one which inevitably provides much less functionality and is not as solid of feature rich.