Report rendering engines
I'm investigating reporting options.
We have the following requirements:
- our client software must be able to run offline (disconnected from the server) and produce reports.
- the reporting engine must take a report definition and bind to a DataSet as the source data.
- the rendered report should be viewable, printable, and emailable, and exportable to PDF, HTML, and various text formats
We're looking at Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services.
To me, it looks like the ability to work offline removes SQL RS from the contest. Is there a way to distribute the SQLRS rendering engine on the client so it can work offline?