Hello all,
I have read a few articles on this board where people have been asking
for crystal reports on Windows CE.

I understand they are not available.
So I am about to sit down and begin to write a class that will create
very very simple reports on our handheld devices.
IE: Total sales by date, end of day sales report, inventory on hand
reports, etc.

I am looking for some design suggestions.

All of the data is stored on a server so I can create a stored
procedure and expose it through a web service to return to the device a
DataSet.

Then I am thinking a class that takes the DataSet and creates a form
with labels displayig the data from the DataSet?
This sounds intensive.

Any additional thoughts will be helpful.

Regards,
Anthony

A multi-line scrollable text box should be the way to go.

Then you have to have a way to define the minimum basic parts of a
report, and what to display or print in each one:
Report Start - Printed only once (Title, date etc)
Page Start - Printed in each page (Col headers etc)
Details - The detail lines ( Sales by date or salesman)
Page end - Printed at the bottom of each page
Report end - Printed at the end of the report.

After you get the data, you parse the definition and display-print the
appropriate data.


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