Steve Wilkes
03-17-2000, 12:44 PM
Last I heard, Videosoft's VSReports doesn't support ADO, it's DAO only.
Jason <JasonL@thecarphonestore> wrote in message
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>
> "Mike" <m_culley@one.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >Dan,
> >
> >From what I have seen, data windows are pretty average. Our PB programmer
> >showed me a complex report he was working on. He added one field and the
> >entire report was reformatted with all the boxes on the left.
> >
> >Although I don't like Access, I think that it has the best report writer.
> >For VB we use active reports, which isn't bad. PB7 is $4000 in australia.
> >Visual studio (which is several languages) is $2300 and the NFR version
> is
> >$419. With these savings we can afford to purchase a few add ons.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >"Dan Thibodeaux" <dan@dataflyt.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>I've seen no mention of enhancing the reporting features in VB7.
> >>The DataReport object in VB6 was a start but leaves something to be
desired.
> >> We develop in PowerBuilder and their DataWindows are the best I have
ever
> >>seen for generating reports. I hope Microsoft does something about this
> >>soon. Please don't say use Crystal Reports. Microsoft should include
> >decent
> >>reporting objects for the price we pay for Visual Studio Enterprise!
> >
> I agree with Mike, I've used Crystal, the DataReport object and have
looked
> at DataWindows. I like the Access report writer. I use VideoSoft's tools
> to create report files from Access reports. Their VB Control gives all the
> options you could want to preview, print etc in an intuitive way.
>
Jason <JasonL@thecarphonestore> wrote in message
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>
> "Mike" <m_culley@one.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >Dan,
> >
> >From what I have seen, data windows are pretty average. Our PB programmer
> >showed me a complex report he was working on. He added one field and the
> >entire report was reformatted with all the boxes on the left.
> >
> >Although I don't like Access, I think that it has the best report writer.
> >For VB we use active reports, which isn't bad. PB7 is $4000 in australia.
> >Visual studio (which is several languages) is $2300 and the NFR version
> is
> >$419. With these savings we can afford to purchase a few add ons.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >"Dan Thibodeaux" <dan@dataflyt.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>I've seen no mention of enhancing the reporting features in VB7.
> >>The DataReport object in VB6 was a start but leaves something to be
desired.
> >> We develop in PowerBuilder and their DataWindows are the best I have
ever
> >>seen for generating reports. I hope Microsoft does something about this
> >>soon. Please don't say use Crystal Reports. Microsoft should include
> >decent
> >>reporting objects for the price we pay for Visual Studio Enterprise!
> >
> I agree with Mike, I've used Crystal, the DataReport object and have
looked
> at DataWindows. I like the Access report writer. I use VideoSoft's tools
> to create report files from Access reports. Their VB Control gives all the
> options you could want to preview, print etc in an intuitive way.
>