Eric Wise

Business & .NET

I now hate reporting services

What a waste of my time.

It's all sorts of messed up just because I don't run my IIS development on port 80.

It tells me I don't have permission to build reports when I'm logged in as administrator.

There's no apparent way to change the datasource on the fly.

I guess it would be a great thing if I was serving these reports on a LAN and everything ran on port 80 and only windows authentication was used.

Fed up with it now though, I'll just dispay report data in the damn datagrid.

Published Jul 29 2004, 06:42 PM by Eric Wise

Comments

Dan said:

Look at Data Dynamic Active Reports...

Simple, easy to use, it does works without patches (compare to Crystal) and even with the demo they will give you a damn good service.

We've been doing comparative studies between Report creators for .NET and this one is a step ahead.

HTH

# July 30, 2004 2:23 AM

Eric Wise said:

SQL Reporting Services vs Active Reports .NET

# August 23, 2004 4:24 AM

John Colbert said:

The AR.NET installer will only let *one* version exist on a web server. There are ways around this, but the installer won't do it automatically.

So, if you are trying to install to a web server that already has an application that is using the older version, you'll have to do some manual "games" to keep the older version of AR.NET on the server while installing the new one.

.NET allows multiple versions on the server. Why isn't the AR.NET installer smart enough to give you the option?

# September 3, 2004 3:57 AM

Rob said:

Telerik (www.telerik.com) also offers a simple and easy Reporting solution. Seems the right price as well @ 399, but still lacks an end-user designer. I hear the guys are working on it, and I am eager to get my hands on it once it is out. I bet it will have the quality and support of their robust ASP.NET controls.

# November 13, 2007 7:48 AM

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