Need Reporting Software. Who is the best

[Steve Thomas]

I need to create some reports in VB6. Pie Charts, bar charts, etc. Is Crystal Reports the best or does anyone have any other suggestions??

Thanks

[PaulLewis]

Well, it says (more or less) that Seagate Crystal Reports 7 is excellent, but has some annoying drawbacks:

no support for ADO
non-standard interfaces
limited support for creating dynamic reports

Also, I have noted the price to be very high. They clearly aim this at the enterprise market.

Other hits in the publication were:
ActiveReport 1.1 by data dynamics. At a more modest price (but still aroung $US400), they really had nothing bad to say about it except that the documentation was poor. Also, you can't add event-driven code to a report created at run-time. This probably isn't a limitation for most situations though.

On the plus side, they fully support ADO, DOA, RDO. So chhose your poison and go for it

If I have to add reporting to an app, I would probably go for the ActiveReports, simply because of the cost. I would definitely try before I buy though!

Cheers
Paul Lewis