Crystal report or flow document in WPF

Question

I have wpf application and it needs report printing. for example daily, monthly sales. Should I use Crystal report or Flow Document with tabular will do? I know this is naive question.

I need faster and free reporting solution....

thanks

Answer 1

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services are well worth looking in to: in my experience far less buggy than Crystal and all you need to is add a Report (RDL) file to your project and drag on a viewer (with WPF may be necessary to host it in a WindowsFormsHost control, thouhg). Or you can go the whole hog and install SQL Server with reporting services, so that the reports are processed on the server. You get a load of decent export options (PDF, HTML,..) and there's plenty of flexibility and customisation for logic and rules in the report.