How to manage changes to reports in .NET?

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Published on 2010-05-13T08:55:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 9:04 UTC
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If I need to offer the ability to create, view and print reports from a .NET app, I see that there are 2 options:

use a reporting component such as Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer or Crystal Reports which saves a .rpt or similar template file that can be modified as required without having to re-compile the app
use System.Drawing.Printing for reporting and store report template data in a database, which keeps things simpler and avoids problems with bulky third party reporting components

If I want to be able to modify a report template (which would include layout and data fields) without having to re-compile the app, would the first option above achieve this?

If I wanted to be able to modify the template without re-compiling the app, how could this be achieved with the second option? How could you store data representing the templates in a database such that it could be modified without having to re-compile the app?

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