I'm a newbie to ASP.Net but I've really enjoyed the power of what can be done. I have hit one problem area namely reporting. I've successfully created Crystal reports and also used ReportViewer - all locally on my development machine. However as soon as I publish to my Winhost server nothing works. On the Server CrystalReports are tricky and seem to require merge modules or the right DLLs to make it work (never figured that out). Report Viewer is only useful if there is a Report Server installed that can execute your reports server side otherwise you run foul of client trust issues. Does anyone know if Winhost has a Report Server (what is their URL?) Basically I'm asking for advise/help as to how to create reports that work on server deployed Web apps. Anybody have any thoughts? I'd prefer Crystal reports as it seems the most powerful and I've used it before (not in asp though).
We don't offer Crystal Reports or SQL Reporting Service at this time. We may offer reporting services if the demand is high enough, but Crystal reports is extremely expensive to license for shared hosting (I'm not even sure you can license it for hosting anymore?). Unlikely we'll ever go in that direction.
Thank for the update Hank. I'm curious though about using Report Viewer. I noticed on your News section that " Report Viewer Control 2010 has been installed on all Winhost web servers" which seems to suggest that we can produce reports. From my reading (I could be wrong) the complimentary server component to this is Report Server that will execute reports on the server that we can design using the Report Viewer controls. If this is not right then what does this new feature allow us to do reporting wise ?
Yes that is true. Report Viewer version 9 and 10 are installed on the servers GAC however you can still upload the Report viewer components in your applications Bin folder and have your application reference it from there.
