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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.

Posted 07-29-2004 6:42 PM by Eric Wise

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Dan wrote re: I now hate reporting services
on 07-30-2004 2:23 AM
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
Eric Wise wrote SQL Reporting Services vs Active Reports .NET
on 08-23-2004 4:24 AM
SQL Reporting Services vs Active Reports .NET
John Colbert wrote re: I now hate reporting services
on 09-03-2004 3:57 AM
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?
Rob wrote re: I now hate reporting services
on 11-13-2007 7:48 AM

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.