Reporting Options

[StephanieHarris]

Hello,

For a while now my visual basic application has used crystal reports as it's reporting tool. I think it works very well embedded within my vb app. I get very good performance and I'm pleased.

I've tried to use these same crystal reports and view them over the web. Performance is horrible. I've recently played around with Data Dynamic's Active Reports and although performance is better on smaller reports, larger reports constantly bomb because I've run out of memory (1 gb of ram).

I guess my question is, does anyone have a suggestion for a suitable web reporting tool? What other tools are people using besides for crystal and active reports? I suppose I could code out my own reports but then I would have to also worry about things such as exporting functionality that is already taken care of in these other packages.

Thank you for any suggestions! - Stephanie

[Sahir]

I suppose I could code out my own reports but then I would have to also worry about things such as exporting functionality that is already taken care of in these other packages.

Making your application generate the html is a very good solution.
It makes your report generation mechanism extremely quick and lightweight.