Suggestions and experience on third party grid and reporting component!!!

[mandark]

Hello,

I would like to buy a third party grid and a reporting component for by Visual Basic applications.

I need a grid component which supports the following features-
1. Bound/Unbound Mode
2. Layout Saving
3. Hierarchical Presentation
4. Grouping/Sorting
5. Customizable columns to include user defined values

And a reporting component which supports the following features-
1. Bound/Unbound Mode
2. Grouping
3. Graph/Chart
4. Export to external formats
5. Custom scripting
6. Drill down

Through I have come across a few of them-

GRID COMPONENT:
1> ComponentOne Grid (ComponentOne)
2> Sharp Grid (Data Dynamics)
3> Janus Grid (Janusys)

REPORTING COMPONENT:
1> Crystal Reports (Seagate)
2> Active Reports (Data Dynamics)

I would like to gather your experience and suggestions on the same.

Thanx,

Mandark.

:) :) :)

[crosbj]

I use the Ultragrid from Infragistics. They used to be Sheridan software and had datawidgets. The Ultragrid will do all of the stuff you listed. It was a significant upgrade from their datawidgets grid. The only thing I didn't like was that the original datawidgets grid had multicolumn dropdown lists. For some reason they didn't add this to the Ultragrid? However, it is a very good grid component.