How do you do reporting in your web forms or MVC application? In the past we have been using Crystal Reports but not sure it is the best soution espeiclaly since I really don't understand their licensing when distributing web applications (can I just buy
a standard license or do I need to get into some OEM contract relationship?)
We are currently using SQL Server for almost all our application development but a reporting solution that is database independant is prefered. I guess SQL Reporting Service is one option (and I guess one of the most used by .NET developers)
This is what we need:
- Visual design tool (like CR)
- No need for creating reports AD hoc but need to be able to have some control at runtime. That include being able to change sorting, selection, hide/show sections etc.
- It should be possible to run reports from a datasource like custom objetcs or a dataset so we can create the datasource in code. Can live with db onl ...
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