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Generally, I think the Reporting product is going in the right direction - faster, easier report generation and flexible -- but using the Reporting product feels like it's missing alot, perhaps because it is a "preview".

It would be nice also for the preview if there would be fixes made to some of the issues before the 11.1 release.

It would also be nice to know how much more the "real" version would offer.

 

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    Hi George,

     

    Thanks for your feedback.

     

    We are very excited about the Reporting product. As in any V1 product, we needed to pick our battles. It was going to be difficult to be able to complete with other offerings feature-wise, as most of the existing products were in the market form 3-8 years. We picked some key scenario that did not have good solutions in the market today, like being able to render reports entirely in the client. This is very important in particular in modern applications where the data is available in the client and you don’t want to spend server CPU cycles to render reports, because servers are usually under heavy load or are paid per usage.

     

    One key investment was  creating a design-time experience from scratch, without relying in the Windows Forms designer. This will enable us to host the designer in Silverlight, so power users could customize the report layout. This is not a V1 scenario for us, but is a very important part in our product strategy.

     

    We plan to have interim releases between the CTP and the final product release. The next interim release will have support for exporting to Excel and printing for WPF and Silverlight, in addition to several usability and bug fixes.

    Regards,

    Andres

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