[c#] Reporting (free || open source) Alternatives to Crystal Reports in Winforms

In my winforms project I'm looking for a Crystal Report's like solution free or open source that allows me printing and PDF'ing the Content of a DataSet. ¿Any suggestion or Ideas?

I need something simple but fast, Crystal seems very slow for me. Thanks in advance.

I'm aware of this question but it seems to me there are just answers related to java

BIRT, the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool is open source.

BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your Java/J2EE application to produce compelling reports. BIRT provides core reporting features such as report layout, data access and scripting.

1. LogiReport
2. MonoReport

You could try implemeting something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/reporting__windowsforms.aspx

If you are using Sql Server (any edition, even express) then you can install Sql Server Reporting Services. This allows the creation of reports through a visual studio plugin, or through a browser control and can export the reports in a variety of formats, including PDF. You can view the reports through the winforms report viewer control which is included, or take advantage of all of the built in generated web content.

The learning curve is not very steep at all if you are used to using datasets in Visual Studio.

Free to try with a nagging banner... DevExpress XtraReports and XRCharts. Very nice dev tool, great support, speaking from experience.

You could use the MS Report Viewer in local mode or the open source fyiReporting RDL Project

You can use an RDLC file provided in visual studio to define your report layout. You can view the rdlc using the ReportViewer control.

Both are provided out of the box with visual studio.

I would suggest that you use the fyiReporting (Forked and Moved Now Current as of 2012) tool if you are looking to replace Crystal Reports. I have used both fyiReporting and Crystal and would have to say that I prefer fyiReporting(though their website is ghetto).

Reasons for choosing fyiReporting

1. If you want to replace Crystal then you are used to having a Report designer. FyiReporting has its own GUI just like Crystal Reports for creating and running reports(You could just create and distribute reports without building an application).

2. FyiReports allows you to export the Report as PDF, excel and mht(static web page) just to mention a few.

3. FyiReports are xml based so the report definition can be saved in a database and altered at anytime.

4. If you are using .Net FyiReporting has a Web and Windows Forms control for embedding the report in your applications(much like crystal reports). I am not so sure about Java as I am a .Net guy.

Anyway give FyiReports a try.

JasperReports: http://jasperforge.org.

openreports: http://oreports.com/ For hosting jasper files.

Not specifically a reporting tool but displaytag is a simple java tag that will emit, csv, xls and pdf.

http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/1.2/

MS' free SQL Server 2008 Express (with Advanced Services) looks to include reporting services.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/download/

Here how reporting features differ from the full version: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365166.aspx

EDIT: I don't know if this works in winforms but it still looks useful.