Plans of ReportBuilder for Delphi 2006 - Win32 and vcl.net ?

rbuser

Hi:

As with the plans of ReportBuilder for Delphi 2006?

Single for "win32" or also for "vcl.net". ?

Thanks

nardmoseley

Win32

rbuser

And in the future ?

When ?

Thanks

nardmoseley

We are working on a solution that will enable existing ReportBuilder reports
to be leveraged by .NET and VCL.NET applications.

Digital Metaphors is currently working on RB for .NET. The project is being
approached in phases. The first phase will have the ability to preview and
print reports in .NET, while relying on a COM layer to leverage the existing
report engine.

RB .NET <----> Page <--> COM/RB VCL Win32

Later phases will port additional subsystems to pure .NET.

The new development is being done in C#, our intention is to support VS and
Delphi (BDS) .NET environments.

This approach will enable developers to build .NET applications (pure .NET
or VCL.NET) that can preview and print ReportBuilder VCL Win32 reports.

We were excited about VCL.NET when it was announced. We spent over 6 months
porting RB to VCL.NET. The end results were disappointing - poor performance
and poor stability. We shelved the product just prior to completion because
it did not live up to the standards that our customers expect. (Keep in mind
that RB is a development environment and a class library. The RB code base
is large and complex (over 400,000 lines of code). No one was more
disappointed than our team.)

We have not ruled out the possibility of supporting VCL.NET in the future.