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This whole report thing in VS2005 is a joke, right? What an unbelievably
really bad piece of crap! Hopefully, they have fired the incompetent team
that developed this really non-usable tool. Heck, they don't even have a
dedicated newsgroup for this dotnet category.

1. Can't put items in the Header, when using headers and footers, that come
from the PO_Header.
2. Try editing a really long IIF statement; what a frigging joke. That
little helper box appears just long enough to focus, then it goes away, so
your left with this text box that you have to scroll from left to right
trying to edit.
3. Drop a rectangle on the report, and even though in design mode it looks
fine, when you run it you will find that the rectangle overwrites
information that is clearly well below it in design mode.
4. Change a report from 8.5 x 11 to 11 x 8.5 and then try and figure out
where to drag the report so that it actually prints properly on that paper
size. Thats a project in itself!
5. Run a report, and the text box displays 'Error'. Jeez, thanks a lot.
6. The dataSources is a joke right? It never displays anything correctly.
It has datasources that I have no idea where they came from. All I am doing
is dragging items from a strongly typed dataset to the report.

Hopefully, someday, VS will become a complete tool, and not just something
we have to find work-arounds for. I have to spend hours, even days figuring
out how to get some simple, no-brainer item working. Don't get me talking
about TabControls!



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