I am looking for a reporting service/tool for visual Studio. My only restraint is my web server is off limits to me as far as installing ANYTHING. So I need something I can just include in my project.
My users need to be able to export a report to PDF and without being able to use Crystal I am pretty much lost.
Any ideas?
fyireporting (released under Apache License) is worth a try.
The fyiReporting RDL Project is a powerful report and charting system based on Report Definition Language (RDL). Tabular, free form, matrix, charts are fully supported. Report output may be displayed as HTML, PDF, XML, .Net Control, Web Archive, and to a printer. Libraries exist for use in your ASP.NET, Windows .Net, and command line applications.
Try Microsoft's ReportViewer system. It to uses the Report Definition Language, but it's ready to go out of the box. It's not Open Source, but it is redistributable.
As suggested by Ant, there is also ReportingCloud which is a branch of fyiReporting
If you're willing to have no report designer and open source is an absolute requirement, then take a look at iTextSharp - version 4.0 is totally open source (5.0 you have to pay for comercial use).
There are some additional open source systems listed at Reporting Software Info.
