Free report

[C Did]

What's the best free way create a report?
I don't like printing from IE because of the header / footer it sticks on
there.
Is there way to send straight to a printer without all that? PDF etc?

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

Printer+ghostscript>pdf

http://www.hellobasic.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=dotnet;action=display;num=1134897582

 

[C Did]

can't get it to work. It says I need a postscript printer. I have to go out
and buy a postscript printer?

And put it where? on the server or othe client?

thanks

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

You only need to install a postscript driver, for this scenario printer "HP
PaintJet XL300 v2011.112" might be a wise choice for now.

Hey, it's out of the ordinary stuff, it ain't normal to do this but it
works.
I'm just showing you an easy way to print to pdf and let the download it in
a single pass.
It does work fine but it's not very normal to do it this way.

The printerdriver should be on the server, if you manage this code to work
you'll see the user only needs adobe reader for reading the pdf.
The PDF can then be printed locally if desired.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

I suggest you use the new ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0.
It's fairly slick (although poorly documented so far) and it exports to PDF.

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

Is that in the ordinary express version?
Would like to know where that one is

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Edwin,

It is distributed with Visual Studio 2005.

You can download the Microsoft Report Viewer, for free, here :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ac-758d-45c8-b637-dd7726e61367&displaylang=en

It's important to nte that this is only a Viewer.
The Report Server is distributed with SQL Server 2005.

Get more info about both at : http://www.gotreportviewer.com/

Get WinForms and Web Forms ReportViewer samples at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...37-B0D1-47A3-8063-66AF555D13D9&displaylang=en

This free Report add-in adds ReportViewer to Visual Web Developer :
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...7D-48053B8F9FAD/SQLServer2005_ReportAddin.msi