Infragistics have published a nice white paper on WPF and its future. This is a very positive piece which reaffirms Microsoft's and Infragistics' commitment to WPF.
For those of us that develop for WPF, this is great news.
However, if Infragistics are so committed to WPF, why have they given up on development of WPF reporting? Without a credible reporting component, WPF is not a credible platform for a lot of developers. The Infragistics reporting wasn't great but it was better than nothing. If you need a reporting tool (and Infragistics Reporting+ for the iPhone isn't one), then I guess you will have to go to another WPF toolset vendor for reporting. And, if you are doing that, why would you bother staying with Infragistics for the rest of the WPF tools.
What are the chances of Infragistics reconsidering and committing to Reporting as well as WPF?
Hello Tim and thank you for your post!
Infragistics continues to support WPF Reporting - http://help.infragistics.com/Help/Doc/WPF/2015.1/CLR4.0/html/WPF_Reporting_Understanding_WPF_Reporting.html and the work for improving this product is still in progress. The updates are released with the release for the WPF platform. The Infragistics Reporting - http://help.infragistics.com/doc/reporting/2014.2/CLR4.0?page=Getting_Started_NetAdvantage_Reporting.html on the other hand is the one being deprecated. And we are putting our efforts in the ReportPlus product when it comes to reporting as it offers the modern rich data visualization experience for mobile devices and soon for desktop machines. I believe the following article could give some details in the advantages of this product and why we are focusing on it: http://es.infragistics.com/community/blogs/jason_beres/archive/2015/04/13/product-status-change-notification-infragistics-reporting.aspx.Please feel free to contact us if you have any other questions on the same.
Hello Tim,
I am just checking if you have any other questions or concerns.
Hello Maria,
Yes, I was referring to the Infragistics reporting product that had been retired. I don't think anyone can really think the ReportPlus could in any way be a replacement for Infragistics Reporting and this is a very disappointing decision for me and everyone else that relied on the product.
I am hoping that I am wrong and ReportPlus will be a useful replacement for Infragistics Reports. So, can you tell me when the desktop version will be released, if it will be possible to convert reports created in Infragistics Reporting to ReportPlus and if you can create and integrate ReportPlus reports into WPF applications in the same way you can with Infragistics Reports?
Many thanks
Tim.
Tim,
A desktop version of ReportPlus is expected to be released in the fourth Quarter of this year. We are also planning on releasing a viewer for that will allow you to show reports in a WPF application. As far as conversion of existing reports that were built using Infragistics Reporting, you will need to manually recreate the reports. Until the viewer for WPF is released, you could also us a browser control in your WPF application and use the HTML5 dashboard viewer in your applications.
Let me know if you have any questions.