As it seems that fyiReporting has died I have made a fork (https://github.com/majorsilence/My-FyiReporting). I have merged in patches from the fyiReporting forum. I have made build scripts to create .net 2 and .net 4 packages. I also slowly fixing bugs as I come across them. I have converted the solutions to visual studio 2008 format and fixed the references so the source code will build.

The projects should also build with no problems using visual studio express 2008 or 2010.

I have a couple reasons for this:

1. I want to have a free reporting solution that I can use in my own projects
2. I want a reporting solution I can run on mono/asp.net
3. I want that reporting solution to be somewhat compatible with Microsoft reporting
4. I need to know it is not going to disappear
5. I want to make it easy for others to use

I currently have two bugs that I am slowly working on. The first is the RdlEngineConfig.xml file points to non-existent dlls so database support is not loaded in the designer. I think I will fix the postgresql and sqlite problem by including the required dlls in the project. For the other databases I will probably need to include any option to let users edit the paths to the dlls. The only problem with this is that it means the project will be 32bit instead of AnyCPU since sqlite is 32bit only on windows.

The second bug is that I want an designer user control that can be embedded in other applications. This means I will probably turn the current designer form into a user control and replace the current designer with a form with the new designer control added to the form.

Hopefully this will be useful to others besides myself.

Other free reporting solutions for .net: https://github.com/tomaszkubacki/monoreports https://sourceforge.net/projects/reportingcloud - this is another fork of fyiReporting but it also seems to have died

I have discovered fresh pomegranates. I wish I had tried them sooner.

I have decided to stop working on my pygtk book. I have moved it to https://github.com/majorsilence/pygtknotebook as that will make it easy for other people to continue working on it if they want. It covers pygtk 2.* and has nothing for the new pygtk 3.* or whatever it is now called.

If anyone wants to work on it they can fork it and send push requests with their changes.

I have been working on devede again. I have built it on windows 7 64bit. It has not been tested on windows 2000, xp, 2003 or vista. It has also not been tested on windows 7 32 bit. I suggest everyone try it and let me know how it works on the other systems as I will not be testing it there.

If everything is working out with it I will put a link on the devede page.

http://files.majorsilence.com/devede/downloads/317-0/devede-setup-3.17.0-build2.msi

Note: After installing on the first run it does not work to well. You need to close it and rerun it and it works good after that.

I have just recently upgraded to windows 7. As I am now only using windows 7 I will not be testing on window xp. The good news is I should run into problems that people having noting they see on windows 7 and be able to fix them.

I have been testing and building devede on windows 7 today and it seems to be working much better. Maybe I will upload a new installer soon.