Re: Report Generator Suggestions

From:

"AliR $VC++ MVP$" <AliR@online.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:28:43 -0500

Message-ID:

<EYjkk.6890$cn7.3846@flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com>

When I was faced with creating reports that were well formatted, and
dynamic, I chose to go with HTML.

My report tool was basically a CHtmlView that would load up XML files which
would in turn get transformed to HTML using XSLT.

The nice thing about it was that I didn't have to worry about any display
problems, since the html browser would handle all the formatting and
printing for me!

Here is a screen shot of my report tool:
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report1.jpg
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report2.jpg
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report3.jpg

Worked out great for me. I think I reduced the work of 6 months into 1
month!

AliR.

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
news:u7FfGTt8IHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I'm writing an MFC application that needs a ton of reports based on data
stored in SQLite.

There's not enough money for me to hand code all these reports in C++.
I've found free libraries such as Quick Print on CodeProject and they've
seemed buggy and poorly written.

I'm just wondering if others have dealt with this. The only thing I know
about Crystal Reports is that I hated it back many years ago when it was
included with VB classic. I won't rule out a package like this but would
prefer something smaller and easier to distribute. Also, I have no idea if
Crystal Reports could be made to work with SQLite.

Just looking for suggestions.

Thanks!

Jonathan