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Kevin Marois wrote: Your options I WAY too complicated
Not really. I have used this method before and it works very well.
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If all the report contained was columns of raw text, then sure, this would work.
But back to the real world... my report has a lot more content, so no, looping over data and replacing text is not an option.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Ok. Only you can decide what is the correct method for you. Good luck. Report tools all suck at some level.
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Slacker007 wrote: Report tools all suck at some level.
Ain't that the truth.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Can't you just use razor / T4 to generate an html page? you can have anything on that page.
Razor is a bit more complicated to get working out of mvc, but is possible and the templates look nicer than T4, but both work wonders.
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I have done this many times. Good suggestion.
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Or, you could go a bit further and re-use ASP.NET MVC's Razor:
https://github.com/AlexCuse/RazorReport[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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DevExpress? I use them and they are very helpful and have an AWESOME control suite. You can also just buy the reporting stuff, all required dependencies cannot be used in design time, but you don't have to buy the whole control set.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Kevin Marois wrote: 2) Infragists... NO! Used their crap in the past and I won't go back. Besides, I can't find a demo to try. Not a same to run... a demo I can download and work with.
So if you had a demo, you would use their crap? 
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I dunno. I am not very impressed with them, but at this point I'm open to anything.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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1) Output data to Excel (use ClosedML from codeplex)
2) Tell users to go wild colouring in the resulting spreadsheet however they like
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: colouring in the resulting spreadsheet however they like
Because we all know that users just want colorful reports with lots of bling. F*** the data, show me the color.
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If you're generating a new report and don't need any extra formatting, you can just generate the basic xml. Much less painful than even ClosedML, and Excel will open it just fine.
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Excel is what we do now for reporting. Very flexible for the user who has to work with it.
We've used Crystal Reports in the past; it's really no good anymore!
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20 years ago I wrote a report designer/reporting suit in COBOL using Btrieve as database - I can search for the source code and send you if you want!?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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COBOL? HAHAHA
Thanks, I needed a laugh.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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COBOL lives.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: COBOL lives.
... in someone's mind.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Chris Maunder wrote: COBOL lives.
It scares me to read that coming from you, of all people.
Which vital part of codeproject.com does it run?
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The really old bit.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Visions of a drooling, geriatric hamster, multiple IV's hooked to its body, stumbling on a rusted, urine-encrusted wheel come to mind.
Yes, I wanted that picture in my head this morning  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Show me someone who doesn't have code maintained this way and I'll show you someone new to the game or a liar.
For the sake of a little extra straw and newspapers it saves a rewrite.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, I know. I have a group of C++/MFC applications still being maintained using Visual Studio 2003.NET, because the Pointy-Haired Boss types don't want to spend the resources to do regression testing after we upgrade to a more recent tool set.
Like Visual Studio 2008  , which is what use for our current products.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It does indeed, name your price you contractors.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Kevin Marois wrote: Crysal Report....20 years ago they were great. $hit now.
No, they were $hit then, too.
Will Rogers never met me.
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