I notice a lot of folks on this forum use Devexpress Xtrareports as their report writer. Having looked at a few report writers, I am now seriously considering XtraReports. One issue that would cause concern me is the apparent lack of support for Dot Matrix Printers. A lot of our users still use Dot Matrix printers and will not be convinced to change. I have seen a few threads on the Devexprress fora ehich suggest that Dot Matrix Printers are not supported. Wondering here if anybody knoes if that is the case, and if so, are there any workarounds .?

The one problem that I just had to resolve with several of my reports, is starting with DX 9.3.4 they want the XtraReport datasource to be a DataSet and not a DataTable.  This would work in previous versions, but now the report will run ok but you only get one line in the report eventhough the datasource may contain more records.  The solution is to create a dataset with the datatable inside (make sure the datatable is named).  Set the DataSource to the dataset and the datamember to the datatable name.  As I mentioned previously, not a big problem for me since I was already using VS datasets, but perhaps a little more coding if your using SF BOs.

Jason Seidell

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