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kvr901 - 23 Sep 2005 04:02 GMT

I'm at the beginning stages of building a VB.NET ASP.NET web application
using VS.NET 2003. I need to create reports that the users can print. These
reports will each be based on one record, so there is no need for datagrids
or grouping. Imagine a Word document with boxes on it that people either type
or hand write the person's name, address, zip code, etc. into. This
application will insert data from a SQL Server 2k database rather than the
user doing it manually.

The number of possible concurrent users is unknown at this time.... 10 to
maybe 100.

I don't care if the printed report is a Word document, PDF file, HTML web
page, webform, or something else. What is important to me is that the user
cannot change the formatting (font type and size, box sizes, colors,
landscape layout, etc) when the report is printed.

What are my options?

Thank you.

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Bob Chauvin ( Paix dehors ) - 23 Sep 2005 04:06 GMT

My vote would be for .PDF, since it is a generally supported format, and by
default locked to mods. I do this now
in the same environment, with the help of a tool from Sybase called DW.Net,
which includes PDF generation as an output (in addition to many others.

Check it out (free trial) at www.sybase.com

> I'm at the beginning stages of building a VB.NET ASP.NET web application
> using VS.NET 2003. I need to create reports that the users can print.
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> Thank you.

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Bob Chauvin ( Paix dehors ) - 23 Sep 2005 04:10 GMT

Also check their Newsgroup
sybase.public.datawindow.net

> My vote would be for .PDF, since it is a generally supported format, and
> by default locked to mods. I do this now
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>> Thank you.

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kvr901 - 23 Sep 2005 04:42 GMT

Thank you for your quick replies. I will look into the Sybase product you
mentioned.

I have a few more questions for you (or someone else)....

My understanding is that the version of Crystal Reports that comes with
VS.NET 2003 is limited to 5 concurrent users. Is that correct?

Does this mean that only 5 people can print a Crystal Report at one moment
in time?

Does it mean that if there are 30 concurrent users of my web application
that want to print the same report at the same time, the application will
line them up in order of request until all 30 copies have been printed?

Does it mean that the as long as there are more than 5 people logged into
the ASP.NET web application that Crystal Reports will not print anything?

Or does it mean something else?

I can't test this myself right now, because I don't currently have a way to
test what happens if 2 or more users are currently logged in to the
application.

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Bob Chauvin ( Paix dehors ) - 23 Sep 2005 15:10 GMT

Not sure about Crystal that's bundled with VS.

> Thank you for your quick replies. I will look into the Sybase product you
> mentioned.
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> test what happens if 2 or more users are currently logged in to the
> application.

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