A quick question to ask what people tend to use as a reporting tool for winforms application that DONT use a database as their underlying data storage. In the past we've tried various methods from writing our own routines, data dynamics, component one and devexpress and found all un-satisfactory in one way or another.

What I'd like is to give the end users the ability to create a template in say word and drop in markers and then fill this in, however I don't want to impose a restriction that the end users machine has to have word installed. The type of data to be filled in would be things such as graphics and other sub reports. So I've also considered using html but tend to think that it'll end up biting me when users want to save to pdf or have strange formatting of headers/footers.

Does anyone have any ideas ? All of the 'reporting' tools I've looked at tend to be orientated towards database binding, and  not so much towards object binding.

Thanks

Paul