I am a beginner in VB.NET. I have made a small project and now i would like to make some reports to complete the project.
Can anyone please tell me as to how i can work with reports in VB.NET. I want to retrieve data from SQL Server 2000 using Stored Procedures and generate a report in VB.NET.
Thanks,
George
I would recommend looking at Microsoft Report Viewer - it has a wysiwyg design interface and can consume many different types of data.
You can download it here.
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So I have learned how to create a connection between AutoCAD and my SQL Server using the 'DBCONNECT MANAGER' tool within AutoCAD.
My next goal is to try and change the value/text of an existing label I have created in AutoCAD through an SQL update.
I am fairly experienced in SQL but I am very new to AutoCAD and the whole SQL-AutoCAD integration process in general.
I am setting up this question to ask if someone could point me the right way to achieving this SQL update.
Ultimately I want to be able to change the value of the label that is inside my AutoCAD project save from SQL.
Any advice/help/links/tutorials on this type of stuff would be extremely helpful as I have found very little on the web about this.
Thank you in Advance.
I´m evaluating in using YII framework for an application. This app has 2 requirements very important. First is Reporting. I have to make a lot of Reports and subreports. The Second is that reports have to be exported to word, pdf and xls.
I understand that PHP is not very friendly with reporting tools. I think the best could be Jasper Reports?. But that tool can help me with that 2 points?
Have you use reporting tools with advance reports in php? could you give me an advice?
Thanks.
I am working on JasperReports for the last few months. Its extremely user friendly. The 2 points which you mentioned are very well covered in Jasper. You can do 'n' number of reports, subreports, adhocs, olaps,charts and many more. Exporting options are great. There are around 11 formats in which you can export the reports. I have not used yii or any other reporting tool. For reporting and advanced reporting options, Jasperreports works brilliant. You may want to check out this link for more information.
I am doing a Yii project at the moment. I have not used a great deal of reporting tools, and have not checked out Jasper yet.
But for excel the best reporting tool I have found has been PHPExcel. I extended the factory and built my own code around it to work with my data.
Also if you want to report into MS Word, it might be easier to write your data to RTF files.
I have found PDF's and Text/Word Documents tend to not be too flash for reporting. Excel seems to be the most useful so far. I use PHPExcel with both openoffice on linux and MS Excel and I write all my own reports.
Cheers
Daz
Jasper Reports is a great tool for reporting but it require Java and the integration with PHP require the Java bridge which may not be accessible specially in shared hosting, a good alternative is PHPJasperXML, which takes Jasper Reports and render them on PHP natively, also it exports to PDF and Excel.
I don't know if it could help but exists https://github.com/cossou/JasperPHP in the Laravel framework, somebody could adapt it for Yii2 and use it with composer.
I need to use a custom dll within my SSRS report. Please guide me how to do this in SQL Server 2008 R2 business intelligence studio.
Ok, the question is quite old, but as I had the same issue recently and as your question is not yet answered, i will give you a link that explains what to do
How to use custom assemblies or embedded code in Reporting Services
From you mail I suspect that you didn't deploy the dll on the server bin directory (and modifiy the config file).
Hope this will help you or someone else :-)
To reference a DLL, select the yellow background surrounding the report (in design view) and select Report Properties (not Report Data). Within here you have a Code section, for writing custom code and a References section to reference custom DLL's.
That said, if you want this functionality to be used by many reports, consider wrapping the SSRS reports within a c# web app. This will enable you to make use of common repeating code (like parameter passing) and reduce ongoing maintenance by code reuse.
I'm trying to learn Crystal Reports (VS 2005, VB) and per this question I was trying to drive the report with my own data objects instead of through a DB connection.
I found this tutorial and it looked promising as an answer to my question, but after diving in it only seems to apply to web development.
Am I out of luck in trying to power a Crystal Report with .NET objects in a standalone application?
Based on this step, I think the report might have to be a strongly typed report. Where did it indicate it was only for the web?
Please see my answer for your previous question.
How to use Crystal Reports without a tightly-linked DB connection?
We generate dynamic reports in all of our business web applications written for .Net and J2EE. On the server side we use ActiveReports.Net and JasperReports to generate the reports. We then export them to PDF to send down to the browser.
Our clients all use Adobe Reader. We have endless problems with the different versions of Adobe Reader and how they are setup on the client.
What file format/readers are others using for their dynamic reports? We need something that allows for precise layout as many of the reports are forms that are printed with data from out systems. HTML is not expressive enough.
I've used SQL Reporting Services for this purpose. You can design a report template in Visual Studio or generate the XML for the report on the fly in code. You can then have SSRS export the report to about 10 different formats and send to the client including pdf, excel, html, etc. You can also write your own plugin to export to your own format.
Crystal Reports has a similar product thats more expensive but has a better report designer.
I've always had the most success using PDFs to accomplish this. I can't think of a more universally acceptable format that does what you are trying to do. Rather than looking for another format, perhaps it would be better to try to understand how to overcome the problems that you are experiencing with Acrobat on the client side. Can you provide some more information on the types of problems that you are experiencing with Acrobat?
I does know only 3(4) possible viewer(formats) for reporting in browser.
PDF
Flash
Java
(Silverlihgt)
For all 3 there are reporting solutions. Silverlight are to new and I does not know a solution. You can test how flash and Java in your intranet work and then search a reporting solution. I think PDF should be made the few problems if you use the newest readers. The old readers has many bad bugs.