Wordpad Reporting

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Jan 15, 2009
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Programming Experience
5-10
I do not have access to crystal reports and the way I currently create reports in VB.NET is by calling the data to a grid and using a loop to grab the fields from each row I need.

All the while, I am saving the information to a string like this during each loop increment.
tempstr += s1 & vbTab & s2 & vbTab & s3 & vbTab & ... & vbCrLf

When the loop is finished, I put the string in a rich text box and save it as a rich text file. Then I place my tabs for wordpad and open the file in wordpad like this.
RichTextBox1.Text = tempstr

With Me.RichTextBox1
.SelectAll()

.SelectionTabs = New Integer() {312, 396, 498, 600, 702}
End With

RichTextBox1.SaveFile("C:\report.rtf")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("wordpad.exe", "C:\report.rtf")

This just seems like a sloppy way of accomplishing this, so I am willing to take any suggestions/advice I can get. Thanks!
 
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