We are evaluating using Telerik Reporting for an in house project. So far I really like it. Far cleaner than Crystal, easy to bind to a dataset by hand, great product from my testing so far. I just need to convince my boss about maintenance going forward.
How are updates from Telerik integrated? Does it just require DLL updates and rebuild? Or does it require format changes to reports once they are built? Obviously my boss wants to know that if we go with it we will not be stuck "fixing" the reports every new release.
Thanks
How are updates from Telerik integrated? Does it just require DLL updates and rebuild? Or does it require format changes to reports once they are built? Obviously my boss wants to know that if we go with it we will not be stuck "fixing" the reports every new release.
Thanks
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Hi Jason,
We are glad to hear that you like our product. Compared to the other similar products (for example - Crystal Reports) Telerik Reporting is quite young and there are many directions for improvement and development. As a rule of thumb we at Telerik always avoid breaking changes in our products. As you may guess sometimes this is not possible.
If there are no breaking changes and the new version is backwards compatible the only thing you need is to redirect the assembly bindings to the new without the need to rebuild your projects. Otherwise, more changes are required and you have to rebuild your projects. In case the new version is not compatible with the previous it is always installed side-by-side the previous versions thus the existing applications will be operational.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
the Telerik team
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We are glad to hear that you like our product. Compared to the other similar products (for example - Crystal Reports) Telerik Reporting is quite young and there are many directions for improvement and development. As a rule of thumb we at Telerik always avoid breaking changes in our products. As you may guess sometimes this is not possible.
If there are no breaking changes and the new version is backwards compatible the only thing you need is to redirect the assembly bindings to the new without the need to rebuild your projects. Otherwise, more changes are required and you have to rebuild your projects. In case the new version is not compatible with the previous it is always installed side-by-side the previous versions thus the existing applications will be operational.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
the Telerik team
Instantly find answers to your questions at the new Telerik Support Center