>The UT let us know that Toni Feltman gave talks on SQL Server Reporting Services at the Philadelphia VFP user group.
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>That didn't ring any bells until I read that "SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is the Microsoft answer to reporting tools like Crystal Reports" and that it is included in SQL Server Express which is FREE. Ohhh.
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>The immediate question was, can it be made to work with VFP data which is all I have? Apparently it can use OLE DB data ! Wow.
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>Any suggestions?
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>Alex
It can certainly read VFP data in a number of ways.
If you're calling an SSRS report from a .NET application fill the dataset with vfp data retrieved from an OLEDB provider.
For a standalone report use the VFP OLEDB provider.
I just created one and it ran fine.
Here's the connection string it created.
Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=d:\\apps\\pro6\\testdata
As you can see, the data source points to the folder containing the VFP tables.
These are free tables.
If you have a .DBC, point to that.
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