Summary
The RDC represents the latest in ActiveX technology and provides the following advantages over the OCX:
- Integrates directly into the Visual Basic IDE.
- Allows you to create, view, and modify reports using Reports Experts and familiar Visual Basic code.
- Exposes all Print Engine features and provides the greatest number of events and objects to write code to.
- Performs better because it is a dual interface component with no wrapper around the Print Engine.
- Takes advantage of code completion features that are easy to use in the Visual Basic editor.
- Is fully compatible with Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0.