Hi.

I am wondering what folks here use as a report writer, other than SSRS and Perpetuum, both of which I have ruled out

The criteria is Ease of use for the end user,  and to be able to embed reports reasonably easily into an app.

I would welcome any suggestions

Hi Gerard,



We use DevEx for the UI and I was keen to use the DevEx report writer. It checked out very well I must say but couldn't handle our Pivot Grid style reports the way we needed so we stayed with the tried and trusted Crystal Reports approach (free with VS). People seem to have a downer on Crystal Reports - maybe I'm missing something but it has always seemed like a very good product to me.



Cheers, Peter

I didn't know that Crystal Reports had a free run-time designer. I'll have to look into that. Wasn't the run-time designer in a server product (aka $$$)? If I remember correctly, the Crystal Reports server environment is a bit tricky. It is probably very nice, if you can get it going, but I just don't have the time and energy to work it all out. Fortunately, I do not have to deal with pivot grids in our reporting; therefore, for me, DevEx wins the day.