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I am looking for a reporting service/tool for visual Studio. My only restraint is my web server is off limits to me as far as installing ANYTHING. So I need something I can just include in my project.

My users need to be able to export a report to PDF and without being able to use Crystal I am pretty much lost.

Any ideas?

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fyireporting (released under Apache License) is worth a try.

The fyiReporting RDL Project is a powerful report and charting system based on Report Definition Language (RDL). Tabular, free form, matrix, charts are fully supported. Report output may be displayed as HTML, PDF, XML, .Net Control, Web Archive, and to a printer. Libraries exist for use in your ASP.NET, Windows .Net, and command line applications.

Gulzar
A popular fork of fyireporting is reportingcloud, now on SouceForge.
Ant
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Try Microsoft's ReportViewer system. It to uses the Report Definition Language, but it's ready to go out of the box. It's not Open Source, but it is redistributable.

Bob King
would this require a server install though?
Collin Estes
You can include the ReportViewer dlls in your project without needing to install the redistributable package on the server. The three you need are: Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common,Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel.dll.
JasonS
Reference them directly in your project with Copy Local. You may need to get the last one from the GAC first though.
JasonS
@JasonS: Correct sir!
Bob King
+1  A: 

As suggested by Ant, there is also ReportingCloud which is a branch of fyiReporting

Earlz
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I recommend you to look at FastReport .NET. It have license with source code.

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