When would I use the Data Report Designer in Visual Basic 6.0 vs. Seagate Crystal Reports?
The Visual Basic 6.0 Data Report Designer and Seagate Crystal Reports are complementary technologies, designed to meet different needs. The Data Report Designer in Visual Basic 6.0 is designed primarily for those developers who need the ability to do quick printing of text-based, single-level or hierarchical reports, and wish to reuse data objects they have created using the VB6 Data Environment Designer through drag and drop functionality. Seagate Crystal Reports allows developers to easily build simple reports but also to scale up to more complex reports. Advanced formatting and grouping features as well as charting, multiple export formats and drill down allow developers to easily include rich reporting and analysis into their applications. By using the RDC, developers can do this from within the Visual Basic IDE. Seagate Crystal Reports also gives developers the flexibility to let end users create and modify their own reports without requiring changes to the application.
