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
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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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
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