No Report Writing Capability in VB.Net

[RichD]

It would appear that VB.Net Standard Edition 2003 does not have any built in report writing capability. I was sold on VB.Net on the basis that it had greater functionality than VB6. At least VB6 had the DataReporter. All the help files re reporting in VB.Net refer to Crystal Reports. It fails to mention that CR is not included!

Microsoft have pulled off another con!

Anyway thats the whinge over.

Does anybody know if i can add a report writer (maybe Crystal reports) to VB.net and have those reports run from a vb exe application without the user having to have Crystal reports or whatever report writer is used.

TIA

Rich

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[SpiderBear6]

Crystal Reports is included in Vb.Net.

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[chiph]

As far as I can tell, you don't get Crystal Reports with Visual Basic .NET, but it is available in all versions of Visual Studio .NET:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/topten/upgrade.aspx

(read it carefully!)

Chip H.


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[SpiderBear6]

Sorry... typo... I meant VS.Net. So used to typing VB.Net. DoH!

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[RichD]

Thanks Guys,

thats what I thought. I don't really want to go to the expense of buying the whole VS package just to be able to produce reports. Do you know if its possible to buy Crystal reports and add it to vb.net and get the same functionality that it would have via VS.net?

If not can you suggest a method of producing reports in VB.net?

Thanks again.

Rich

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[johnwm]

You might do better in the VB.NET forum forum796

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