vfp9 report writer vs crystal

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whats new on the report writer of vfp9.0 vs vfp6.0
and
is it like crystal reports ?

George Malekkos
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[Lee Mitchell]

Hi George:

I lot is new in the VFP 9.0 Report Designer. You might want to look at the
book "What's New in Visual FoxPro 9.0" from www.hentzenwerke.com.

You can also look at the VFP 9.0 Help file on the web at
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp. Then click on
Development Tools and Languages> Visual FoxPro> Visual FoxPro 9.0 to access
the VFP 9.0 Help file.

I hope this helps.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

*-- VFP9 HAS ARRIVED!! --*
Read about all the new features of VFP9 here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/

*--Purchase VFP 9.0 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/PRODUCTS/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=54787e64-52
69-4500-8bf2-3f06689f4ab3&type=ovr

Keep an eye on the product lifecycle for Visual FoxPro here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=fh;[ln];lifeprodv
- VFP5 Mainstream Support retired June 30th, 2003
- VFP6 Mainstream Support retired Sept. 30th, 2003

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whats new on the report writer of vfp9.0 vs vfp6.0
and
is it like crystal reports ?
George Malekkos

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[Craig Berntson]

Briefly---

VFP 9.0
- Multiple detail bands
- Output to HTML, XML, TIFF, and others, but not PDF
- Changes to fonts, colors, rotation, etc through ReportListeners (a new
base class). This means you need to write code to do it.
- Improved preview. It's written all in VFP code, so you can change it if
you need to.
- Easy to distribute
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports1.asp
and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports2.asp

Crystal
- Multiple bands in page header, page footer, detail, group header, group
footer
- Output to HTML, XML, DOC, XLS, PDF, and others
- Changes to fonts, colors, rotation, etc can be done in the designer. You
may have to write some Crystal code to do it.
- Distribution done via COM controls and other DLLs...more difficult than
VFP.

There is more
--
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP
www.craigberntson.com
Salt Lake City Fox User Group
www.slcfox.org
www.foxcentral.net

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whats new on the report writer of vfp9.0 vs vfp6.0
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is it like crystal reports ?
George Malekkos
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