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by jacmari

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Hello!

Besides Crystal Reports, are there any other software that can do the same?

What can I use to read a Crystal Report(.rpt) file?

Thanks for all your help!

-- Jackie

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by bob_boffin

Try Active Reports from Data Dynamics (www.datadynamics.com).
It does most things that Crystal does and is much more intuitive especially if you have ever used MS Access reports. It has a proper OOP model and the report object raises events at the most useful moments within the report.

There are versions for VB6 and .NET and trial versions of both can be downloaded.

In addition it will import reports in MS Access format. After struggling with Crystal on a .NET project for a couple of days I produced the same reports using Active Reports in about an hour and also felt that I was in control of it rather than the other way round. There is no facility to import .rpt files from Crystal but this is the only criticism I can come up with.

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