Thanks for the response - it all sounds painless.
Trent - I will look at the samples with interest - what we found very attractive about the DevExpress approach was leverage of skills developed using other DX components.
Cheers, Peter
I found the post very helpful however your reference activereports appear to be the RDL version. How do you compare the integration of SF with ActiveReports.Net 3.0? My product uses the report designer and it is a little tough for the user to build reports.
Do you find attaching to the business objects easier to accomplish using report shooter?
Also, are you still planning to release samples?
By the way, the prices is much lower.
Michael
We looked at ActiveReports.NET in great depth as this was the engine we were probably going to go with until we found Report-Shooter. It tied into the same data sources as Report-Shooter very well using a BBS...however, it is much more complicated to get the entire report engine for your application off of the ground. It is a very good report-engine though, it just did not have all of the bells and whistles that Report-Shooter did...especially for the price!
Absolutely. We actually created a data source that inherits the BusinessBindingSource then it automatically exposes and attaches the BO. Using this approach you can also include child records as collections (properties exposing another BBS data source). So this has turned out to be a very good solution for us.
Yes. We have just been extremely busy as I am sure that you can relate. We do plan on creating a reporting sample showing how to create the data sources as well as use Report Shooter.