Hi!

After spending some time reading and evaluating reports frameworks such as: Crystal Reports, Active Reports, XtraReports and Telerik Reporting -
I came to the conclusion that the first couple (Crystal & Active Reports) are too expensive, and the the last couple (XtraReports & Telerik) have fair price and they suit most of my needs.
Now I'm banging my head trying to figure out which to choose.
It would be extremely helpful if you can provide any information about your experience with these frameworks - pros and cons - Flexibility, Intuitive & easy design, Presentation & also important is the Performance, especially in creating only a pdf reports without a viewer control.

Points of interests?
Any other recommendations?

Many thanks,
Shlomi


p.s. - about data-source - I'm not going to use db data source direct to the sql, since we're using linq (entity framework..) to retrieve the data, and trying to minimize the direct sql code (I love the strongly-typed easy to maintain objects, don't you?)

Hello Shlomiw,

I am moving this thread to Crystal Reports forums for better community discussions for that is the right place for this topic!


Best regards,
Ji Zhou

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