Convert Fastreport vcl 4 frx file to FastReport.NET

We have many reports that have to be converted from FR VCL 4 format into a FastReports.NET format.

Is there a tool available? Did somebody the job already, before we spend a lot of hours to write our own conversion tool.

Our tech guys tell the two tools generate different report format and can't open it each other.

Thanks
Robert

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  • edited 6:19PM
    Hello,

    You may use converter tool that reads .fr3 file and saves it in .frx format:

    http://www.fast-report.com/pbc_download/files/fr3tofrx.exe

    This converter does not perform 100% conversion; you need to change the .frx file.
    The following items are not converted:
    - script (you need to convert pascal code to c# code)
    - expressions (you need to convert pascal functions like Copy, Pos, ... to C# functions)
    - data fields (add datasources, replace < > with [ ], remove " " around field name)
    - totals (you have to replace aggregate functions like Sum, Min, Max with totals - you need to create the total in the "Data" window)
    - charts and vertical bands are not converted
    - cross-tab is not converted
  • edited May 2011
    Dear FastReport.Net-Team,

    in our software-concern, we decided us to use FastReports.NET. We had changed our complete development-strategy, which was based on develop with Delphi to the new platform C#/.NET. So, earlier more than one thousand reports were built with FastReports VCL and the fr3-format.

    Now, our complete development-progress is stopped because of this problem. We can't load the old formatted reports into FastReports.NET.

    But we need a coincidental usage for the Delphi-solution and C#-solution, therefore we need a solid converter, which can used as library in C#.

    Can you give us a good solution? This is very important for us and our strategy.

    Thanks a lot,
    Stephan from
    c-entron software gmbh
    GERMANY

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