Just received your Ultimate upgrade offer and it mentions Report Writer. I have been unable to find any information about this. Is this a Silverlight Data Visualization only product? Any usage capability with winforms?
Nick
Okay I found a little more information by clicking on the Learn More button in the email and looking in the Roadmap - Other Products area. A very broad outline of the report writer. No specific answer as to particulars of usability with winforms,web,silverlight etc.
Glad I am the one making the decision to upgrade or not. Might be kinda hard to go to the boss and say hey trust me sometime next year this feature will be available and it might be something we can use.
Nick- I too found the same information as you and am in the same situation to upgrade or not. The only 'hint' I found was this sentence in the more information page:
In 2011, we're planning to release a fast reporting engine with a rich API for .NET developers.
That tells me that this is probably for winApps and not the web (.NET developers vs ASP.NET developers). I hope someone from Infragisitcs will reply for an official clarification.
Hi Stan,
The product will allow you to export to PDF or XPS. Is that what you were looking for or do you specifically need to view the XPS or PDF document within the control itself?
Regards,
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy: Viewing XPS or PDF specifically is what is needed. Currently, I use a non-infragistics control which is not my preference.
I'm assuming because the new report product has a GUI interface for design that it will have a GUI for production viewing.
As such, the new report product line would be much more attractive to those who have extensively relied on the current document library if the new line would at least allow viewing output (XPS or PDF) of the current document library.
This view capacity would also make the new product somewhat backwards compatible.
Thanks for the info.
Stan
I checked back in with our PM on this and he let me know that we will have a native xaml viewer which can export to pdf/xps. We don't have a generic xps viewer. Please let me know if you have any quesitons on this.
Thanks, Jeremy. I'll investigate when the product is available for trial. What .Net versions support that native xaml viewer?
The native xaml viewer will support SL 4 and .NET 4