Reporting Advice

[Guest]

We are in the process of revamping our reporting processes in our .Net 1.1
medical application.

Our reporting needs are small - almost alway less than 10 pages usually
around 2-3 pages. The data is a mix of databse and live information. The
reports need to be exportable in an rtf format or similar and we need the
ability to allow the end user to modify the content of the reports so they
can customize what information is displayed.

We have tried using CrystalReports but they are slow, not easily
customizable and a little unreliable. We have also used a custom third party
text control which has given us mixed results.

One thought is to move toward XML generated reports and perhaps using MSHTML.

Does any have a recomendations light-weight reporting?

 

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

I'd like to encourage you to check out the SQL Server Reporting Services
(SSRS) features of both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. I think you
will find them to be a better alternative than Crystal reports. They are
fast, easy to produce, easy to modify, exportable in multiple formats, and
quite scalable.

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