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Reporting Made Easy : Steve C. Orr

Wednesday, July 09 2008

One of the more powerful and underrated new controls available for ASP.NET 2.0 is ReportViewer. This control, and its Windows Forms counterpart, solves a long-standing need for which every developer must find a solution: Reporting. In the past, developers typically needed to use Crystal Reports or roll their own reporting solution. Although Crystal Reports can be a good solution for large enterprise reporting systems, its complexity is often overkill for smaller software systems. The ReportViewer control is included with Visual Studio 2005 (Professional version and above). A ReportViewer add-in component for Visual Web Developer Express is also freely downloadable from Microsoft. The ReportViewer control integrates quite well with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, although this marriage is entirely optional. The control can work on its own without SQL Server or Reporting Services; its only dependency is the .NET 2.0 Framework.

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Reporting Made Easy : Steve C. Orr
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