Which .Net Reporting Tool?

Question

I'm improving a software written in .net (3.5) and have decided to change its reports engine from crystal reports to something else. (not very user friendly and buggy IMO. also deep learning curve)
The project is a winforms project.
The most important thing that I want from the new engine:

1. Support right to left layout. (when using multiple columns)
2. Allow the developer to implement a report designer form for the end-user.
3. Ability to export generated reports to excel.

I have tried Telerik reporting and Devexpress XtraReports.
XtraReports is wonderful and exactly does what I need and currently I use it in my program since I couldn't find anything better. The only problem is that they don't support RTL in multiple columns situations. There was another issue that I have reported at: http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Issues/ViewIssue.aspx?issueid=B191320
So, Anyone knows a reporting tool with RTL support?

Answer 1

We use Active Reports from Grape City http://www.grapecity.com/. It integrates pretty easily into Visual Studio for .NET reporting.

You can find more information on it at:

http://www.datadynamics.com/

One word of caution, the programmers at our facility have experience some issues with the License for Active Reports, but our copy is somewhat dated.

A couple of notes concerning your post: (1) The software supports a left to right layout. (2) This reporting suite also has the ability to create a report designer. (3) Active Reports has an XLS resource file which allows you to export to Excel and they also have a resource for PDF exports.

Answer 2

Finally found something spectacular. Stimulsoft Reports completely supports right to left layout has a quick learning curve. After playing with it for half an hour, I've got a right to left layout, DownThenAcross multiple columns report with page breaks for every group.

Here's a post in their forum about what I was trying to achieve.
I'm sticking with XtraReports for the rest of my reports since it's a hard work to convert all my reports to Stimulsoft Reports. But when it comes to right to left support, Stimulsoft Reports is the best report engine out there.