Crystal Report vs MS Data Report Designer
DRD is DEAD. Any reports you developed with it will not be maintainable in
the future. It was a joke from the very beginning and MS has very
appropriately let it die a quick death. In .NET they licensed a special
version of CR that comes free with the product and is totally integrated
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you all about writing reports with CR.
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> Hi all,
> I have the following questions, please hlep :)
> 1. I heard that Data Report Designer (DRD) came in with VB6 only, it
> doesn't come with .Net version or latest version, is it correct?
> 2. Can I say that DRD is being obsoleted? For a new project and some
> reasons, our company want to use DRD/VB6 instead of Crystal Report.
> 3. I am designing a report which had to use a lot of Crystal's
> subreport features, i.e. a huge report which groups a lot of other
> reports together. Is there any similar feature in DRD to
> simulate/achieve the subreport features?
> I am not in VB/Crystal technology for several years. However, I need
> to get back and work on them. :)
> Best regards,
> Autorun
