There are several versions of the Report Viewer Redistributable. If I'm reading things right, the versions do NOT correspond to a version of Reporting Services. Is this correct? They instead correspond to a version of the .net framework?
Is anyone holding a link to a comparison of versions (8, 9, and 10)? I've tried searching for the information, but just can't find the answer to this one.
Thanks in advance.
Indeed, they do not correspond.
The schemas, you find here
Report Viewer 2010 is version 3 and
uses the RDL specification 2008. Its the version used in VS2010
Report Viewer 2008 is version 2 and
uses the RDL specification 2005. Its the version used in VS2008
This post from Brian Hartman leads you in the right direction concerning the new features but also if you want to know more about report viewer.
This post may interest you if you want to work with the 2010-version:
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It seems that Microsoft has removed R support from Visual Studio starting from the 2019 version.
I'm wondering if there's a way to write R code for Data Science on Visual Studio 2022 (Not VS Code) because I don't feel like using another IDE.
I've looked all over the internet and I could only find solutions for VS Code.
I've also seen some Microsoft documentation about it but I couldn't apply it.
After long research, I have come to the conclusion that working with R on Visual Studio is no longer possible.
One must use R Studio IDE instead, which also allows access to graphing tools and so on.
There is an excellent article available at the following URL (below), but I cannot figure out where I can download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. I've looked all over the Internet, but the download links are either not working (those that are at Microsoft), or they go to very suspicious looking websites.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28792/Debugging-Classic-ASP-VBScript-in-Visual-Studio-20
Of course the other question that can be asked is, can this process be adapted to work on the most recent version (or at least a version that can actually be downloaded)?
Here's one link for you, straight from the horse's hands.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13276
Crystal Reports is seemingly randomly adding characters into report output. This is so strange, I almost think we have a virus.
We have been running these same reports with the same version of Crystal reports for a good while now. No one has made changes to the reports and the database data is correct, but the output on the reports now have random characters (usually t's and i's) seemingly inserted at random in between and on top of the text. Even such simple fields as usernames are affected.
It is only doing this with PDF output. Also happens on development machine. Not only limited to server. It is not happening in the integrated Crystal Reports development environment within VS2010. If you preview the report there, it works fine.
Is anyone aware of any Crystal Reports issues that could cause this behavior?
Additional Information:
- Crystal reports v 10.5.37
- Running on Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, Also local Win7 dev machines
- All machines are x64
- Requested through ASP.Net 4 intranet site
- Database server is SQL Server 2008 R2
[UPDATE]
We have resolved the issue, though we do not know the actual cause.
In the answer I posted below, it mentioned Calibri causing problems with the PDF output. None of our reports were set to output in Calibri, but they were. We went through all of our reports and re-set the fonts to Arial and now the random letters are gone.
What still bothers me is that these reports were working fine for the past year up until yesterday. Why did it suddenly decide to happen now?
If I find any more information, I will update this question. We greatly appreciate those who took the time to help diagnose the issue.
We may have found a possible answer to the problem. It turns out Crystal Reports doesn't play well with other USP10.dll's on the system. If it grabs the wrong one, it is known to produce bad text output, especially when using calibri font.
Link to relative post on SAP Community Site
David Hilton's reply near the bottom of the page:
There were a few mentions of conflicts with usp10.dll. We need a very specific version of usp10.dll for our text rendering to work correctly. Often Microsoft Office ships with a different usp10.dll and can cause problems with our product.
I am posting this as an answer because it may help some people. If it turns out to be what resolves our problem I will mark it as the answer.
I have already posted similar question earlier but did not get any response yet so thought let me describe it in detail here.
I am upgrading pentaho reporting from 3.6.1 to 3.8.2. all reports were working fine in 3.6.1 version with my spring based web application.
apart from upgrading necessary jars from 3.8.2, I have opened my existing reports in 3.8.2, save it again and previewed them. all reports worked fine in 3.8.2 report designer and I can able to see reports with data.
so I replaced related .prpt files in my application and tried to run reports from it. but now reports are displaying with out data. Please let me know if anyone has any insight.
This question is answered in the Pentaho forum:
Here is an usefull link for Pentaho http://pentahoasksumeet.blogspot.com
I had exactly the same issue like you, I embedded reporting engine with my Vaadin Java Web Application, and got reports with no data after upgrading reporting engine.
My problem was that, I didn't match the exact same version of the libraries in the SDK with the Pentaho Report Designer. Just be sure to be using the same version of the SDK and the Report Designer, and the problem will dissapear.
The issue comes frequently with the datasource definition between the different versions. If your reports are in old versions, upgrade them using Report Designer and saving them again. Don't use older or newer versions of the reports with the SDK either with the Report Designer. Match the exact versions.
I have a small web application based on asp.net 2010 that manages invoices.
After the invoice is saved, it should automatically generate a pdf file.
which of the following solutions would be fast and easy to incorporate?
Use Sql Server 2008 Reports
Use Crystal Reports 2008 and Crystal Reports 2008 for VS 2010
Use itextsharp to create the pdf file
Use XSLFO to create the pdf file
The point here is I dont know any of the above. Which one is easy and quick to learn and implement. Are there any other solution to achieve this functionality?
The first two options sound a bit heavyweight for your requirements.
You don't say if you require it to be free (open source) or if you are happy to pay for a solution; a quick search found this: ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter
I have to admit that I have never used it but it might be an easy solution if you are already displaying the invoice on your web page.
I would go for XSL-FO as it is open standard and you are not being locked in a proprietary solution. You also have access to visual XSL-FO editors/designers and 3 or 4 high volume server to choose from.
As far as I know, many invoicing statements solutions today use XSL-FO becuse it is very powerful - you can footnotes or very complex pagination, 10-20 output formats, etc.
I personally prefer iTextSharp as it is very flexible as you build the PDF from code as you need it. However as it is a port of the iText open source java library for PDF it is not 100% intuitive (well from a c# perspective)..
However said there are a lot of help blogs and articles.
I have found:-
SQL server 2008 needs a lot of configuration and does not quite give you what you want.
You need to purchase Crystal Reports, however said it is quite a good product
iTextSharp - Free, fairly easy to set up but not 100% intuitive
I have used this and found it tough going although it is possible to get the desired ouput.
edit
For question regarding VS2010, I used it with VS2005 a number of years ago as the basic version came shipped with VS2005. According to the website it appears to integrate into Visual Studio 2010, however this I suspect depends on what version you have.
SAP Crystal Reports can open and edit
files created with SAP Crystal
Reports, version for Visual Studio
2010 (and vice-versa), providing a
fuller set of report design features
compared to SAP Crystal Reports,
version for Visual Studio 2010. SAP
Crystal Reports does not include
tooling to support the Visual Studio
2010 development environment but
developers can use the SAP Crystal
Reports, version for Visual Studio
2010 runtime engine to deploy SAP
Crystal Reports RPT files with all the
extended design features.
i have done something similar with XSLFO - if you know XSLT then XSLFO is very simple to add to XSLT
For me, using Aspose.Words with the mailmerge feature was always the fastest and most flexible/comfortable solution, although not the cheapest.
The super simple way is use third party converter such as ABCPdf, Winnovative PDF Converter. But they cost abount $500 USD.
You said you bought Crystal Report, it can use to generate pdf as well, just use Crystal Report design the pdf template, connect to your database (dataset,datatables). In your code to push data from your database and fill the pdf template finally save as pdf.
But deploy Crystal Report you need merge some modules, otherwise you need install Crystal Report on your server as well.