>>Yep, VFP is "out" ! ... but, Crystal Reports is "in" ! ...
>>
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>>Crystal News, July Edition
>
>Very cool. I've heard Cystal reports rocks (especially over the mediocre VFP report writer and VB data report designer) but I've yet to actually use it.
>
>-JT

Hi Jeff,

I use Crystal Reports regularly and also VFP's reports designer, and yes, CR rocks. Admittedly, CR has a lot more bells and whistles than VFP's long in the tooth report writer. However, be aware that are many things you can do with VFP' report writer that you can only do with much difficulty (or not at all)with CR. You are also restricted in CR to the set of limited functions which comes with it. (You can add to them by writing your own dll). However, in VFP its natively available. I have not used CR from within VFP so cannot comment on CR's SDK issues.

Cheers

Sanjay

Sanjay Kapoor

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