Reporting in .net winforms with end user designer

Question

Hi

What are you guys using as reporting engine in .net, with end user designing capabilities?

I tried DevExpress XtraReports, but i am not able to successfully achieve consistent results. (for example, i try to display a detailreport of sold machines for a certain contact -> first field works fine, other fields don't; no data in them. no matter what i do) That kind of inexplicable behavior is not really tolerated in an enterprise environment, so i'm curious what the other solutions are...

Update: It should be noted that the emphasis is on the end user designer part here. The customer should be able to modify the layout and fields (within limits) of the reports, without extensive IT knowledge.

Answer 1

SQL server Reporting services for any dynamic reports generated or Report builder for adhoc reports.

Answer 2

Data Dynamics Active Reports .Net... Fully integrated with Visual Studio, can use either C# or VB.net, and does not require a separate "reporting server", so the dlls it produces are managed code assemblies that work within your managed code executable, and can be deployed as a dependant assembly with your executable or web application, across an application farm or web farm just like any other deployed application you write, with no additional license fees...

ALso incldues pdf, text xls and other automated report generators and viewers, and a end-user custom report generation tool. (so that end users can modify report layout, filtering and sorting options... )

http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/ProductFeatures.aspx?Product=ARNET3&Topic=End-User%20Report%20Designer

Answer 3

Then you need this tool: Check the end user-friendly designer

Answer 4

FastReport .NET It's powerfull reporting tool. Has many exports (PDF, RTF, DBF, CSV, etc.) And it supports converting from Microsoft Reporting Servieces reports.

Answer 5

We use a combination of EasyQuery.NET and FastReport.NET. The first one allows our users to find the data they need, second - to build the report itself.