I kinda like the rdlc/reportviewer reports in VS2008. It is not what you can call high tech reporting but I think it will do everything I need it to do.

But the question is do we do reporting on the domainmodel or a separate viewmodel/reportingmodel? Or do we just use datasets and custom sql?

Well, I am a guy that tends to use objects, so I like to go the object source path. And the Microsoft reports have some support for this. However the support is not as great as I have seen in other products. Now I see no reason why you would not make your reports use the database direc...

The Microsoft reporting engine doesn't seem to have a barcode control. So there are a few solutions to the problem.

1. Using barcode fonts

Not an option for me since this is a winforms application and I don't like to go around and install those fonts on every computer that needs it.

2. Using a custom usercontrol

There are a couple of 3rd party products that claim to have this functionality. For example, Neodynamics and IDautomation. I tried the Neodynamics one but it needed a reference to Microsoft.reportviewer.design.dll, which I don't have. But while goin...