Repoer Designer for vb.net using Visual Studio 2008 and a SQL 2005 back end database other than Crystal Reports

Question

We are developing in vb.net using Visual Studio 2008 and a SQL 2005 back end database and are looking for a Report Designer that can be used to build reports and give the User the ability to modify and create reports once the software is sold and in use.

Answer 1

FastReport.Net has visual report designer with set of wizards wich you can provide with your application to your users.

Answer 2

Why not just use ReportBuilder which comes free with ReportingServices which comes free with SQL Server, which you're using anyway? No point in reinventing the wheel

SQL 2008 uses version 2.0 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/report-builder.aspx

Version 3.0 is imminent!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd220460%28SQL.105%29.aspx