IMO, the time lag to update the report writer had to do with several things. The need to support COM better and add ADO and XML support. These took developer time away from things like a new report writer. Also, the management of the team has changed in that time. Perhaps some team management felt other areas were more important.

As was stated in other posts, there will still be areas where Crystal will be a better choice and some where VFP reports will be better. However, I would not mix the two in a single application as the preview behaves differently and two different previews could confuse users.


>Sorry... I should reserve for my comment.
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>May be I just have too much expectation for VFP Report writer.
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>Craig, you are the one influence me to using CR. And I just so missing the feature eg. crosstab report, grouping tree, sub-report, graph ablities... and so on.
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>I thought FOX25/VFP3 to VFP9 is more then 10 years, (how long is CR?) and new reporter writer is the feature ask for so many years...
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>And I just so surprise the .NET technology is evolve so fast even ver. 2002 and ver. 2003 have much different. eg. 2003 support mobile technology.
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>At last, I love VFP so much. I will continue use it. Just because I love it so much so I may make my expectation higher......
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>Sorry if I said something incorrect or improper.
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>regards