MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) Reviews

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise

Average Review Score: 5 (17)

5 out of 5 stars

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Name Withheld Italy5 star

Good product. It greatly simplifies the creation of the software, mainly the management of reports.

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Mick O'Rourke, Ward Data Ireland3 star

After 20+ years we have decided to move from the Janus Grid and the related components. We need to ensure that our software is future proofed.

To that end we have purchased Component One Studio... Read more

ComponentOne Studio WinForms

Average Review Score: 4.5 (16)

4.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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MarkUnited Kingdom5 star
I have recently upgraded from using VS Flex Grid with Visual Basic to using the new ComponentOne Flex Grid with .NET and I am considerably impressed with the new package. It is an added bonus that all... Read more

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Anonymous2 star
I downloaded the entire 150mb plus thing, and mapped it to IIS, it has still yet to work for me. Too many files and modules, needs to be oragnized properly. I am not recommending this.

ActiveReports for .NET

Average Review Score: 4 (14)

4 out of 5 stars

5 star
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1 star
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HazemEgypt5 star
Hello, I tried many of reporting tools and I think that ActiveReport is the most flexible reporting tool I have ever seen, and RTL support is very good, but I hope to see the designer more enhanced in... Read more

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danwUSA1 star
We purchased ActiveReports for .NET 1.0 in mid January 2005. Like most companies do, we expected to be notified when an upgrade was available. DataDynamics does not notify you of an upgrade unless you... Read more

Spread COM

Average Review Score: 5 (9)

5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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Name Withheld France5 star

Perfect to migrate spread v2.5 vb6 xp to vb6 win 10.

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ActiveReports.NET

Average Review Score: 4.5 (9)

4.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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Carlos Rodriguez Argentina5 star

I have been using this tool for many years, and have always been able to resolve all reporting requirements.

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VSFlexGrid Pro

Average Review Score: 4.5 (9)

4.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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4 star
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Anthony Lukindo Canada5 star
I have used this grid embedded in a Webpage, in VB 6.0, and in LabVIEW 5.0/6.0/7.1 It worked under all these environments. Deployment under exe compilation was smooth and error free. It is true, as... Read more

Most recent critical review

justin_tigheUnited Kingdom2 star
A good product, but let down badly by not having a columns collection. For example, trying to change something as simple as the column header to a user friendly name is a hassle. The FormatString... Read more

ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM

Average Review Score: 4.5 (8)

4.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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4 star
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1 star
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NTSSpain5 star

Excellent product. Allows end users to modify reports without installing additional products. Perhaps some limitations compared to other products. Factunet, a product of NETSISTEMAS.COM uses it, end... Read more

Most recent critical review

danbo46USA1 star

We have used ActiveReports 1 in our products for a few years now. We distribute very complex reports with our products and had many problems with unpredictable spatial layouts, page breaking, and... Read more

Spread.NET

Average Review Score: 5 (6)

5 out of 5 stars

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Susan Chen Taiwan ROC5 star

Good purchasing experience.

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ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition

Average Review Score: 3.5 (6)

3.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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4 star
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3 star
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2 star
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1 star
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espuaMalaysia5 star
My comments on the VS View Classic 8 (ActiveX) This is a satisfying product that has been well designed for Rapid Application Development with a reasonable file size. With this printing component, I... Read more

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neilNew Zealand1 star
I found the ComponentOne TrueData controls too buggy and unreliable. My code was filling up with 'fixes' to work around problems so their controls would work properly. After converting a DAO project... Read more

ComponentOne Chart

Average Review Score: 3 (6)

3 out of 5 stars

5 star
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VEBUSA5 star
As with all of the VSFlex and other ComponentOne controls, this baby just rocks! I spent a full day trying to get another competitor's product working and couldn't. In just over 5 hours, I had the... Read more

Most recent critical review

nick@ndcassidy.demon.co.uk1 star
The demonstration samples install routine which requires you to sit at the PC for what seems like an eternity clicking endless OK dialog boxes (while binaries build, or something) is utterly tedious... Read more

True DBGrid Pro

Average Review Score: 4 (5)

4 out of 5 stars

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Anonymous5 star
Information was enough to explain the tool.

Most recent critical review

vint.maggsGA, USA1 star
Just purchased ComponentOne True DBGrid Pro 8.0. I cannot recommend it. The documentation is poor and the examples are antiquated (based on VB6). The Help has not been updated to include newer... Read more

List Pro

Average Review Score: 5 (3)

5 out of 5 stars

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Most recent positive review

dbishopUSA5 star
I have been a contractor and or employee doing VB development for over 25 years now. I came across ListPro as an alternative to the controls included with VB and would use nothing else. If I remeber... Read more

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Data Dynamics Reports

Average Review Score: 5 (2)

5 out of 5 stars

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drueterCA, USA5 star
Data Dynamics Reports is awesome! There are a number of good developer-focused reporting libraries on the market. There are also a number of good self-service BI tools on the market. But suppose you... Read more

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ActiveAnalysis

Average Review Score: 4.5 (2)

4.5 out of 5 stars

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jwoodi123WI, USA5 star

I happened to download ActiveAnalysis from the grapecity web site and just discovered Componentsource.com. Very pleasantly surprised by the promise this components holds for developing OLAP and data... Read more

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ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms

Average Review Score: 3.5 (2)

3.5 out of 5 stars

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burakgelegenTurkey5 star
I like True DBGrid because it is 100% Managed Code and fully customizable

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fletcherUSA2 star
It beats me why True DBGrid seems to be the goto product for grids. Our experience was first with the VB version which was selected for reasons surpassing understanding by a previous developer. True... Read more

VSVIEW Reporting Edition

Average Review Score: 3.5 (2)

3.5 out of 5 stars

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ComponentOneUSA - Response to grant [USA]5 star
Our developers are aware of the issues that some customers have had using our components on Windows 95, and are working to resolve them. Typically, for older operating systems, there will be a few... Read more

Most recent critical review

grantUSA2 star
Do not use this product. The tech support has been very slow to get back to me and they are not addressing a serious issue. This product does not work on win95 period. I have repeating asked them what... Read more

ComponentOne Studio Silverlight

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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jon USA5 star
Great controls... Excellent and Quck support! - Makes all the diff.

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ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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Spread Studio

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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ComponentOne Studio ActiveX

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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ComponentOne Preview for WinForms

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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Most recent positive review

jasonAustralia5 star
If you require a high quality Word/Acrobat/Print document generator then I would strongly recommend ComponentOne's C1PrintPreview component, which is actually an incredibly powerful document creation... Read more

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VSVIEW Classic Edition

Average Review Score: 5 (1)

5 out of 5 stars

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jmvvlietThe Netherlands5 star
Great product. Designer similar to Access reports designer, but much, much richer. Very good exportation to HTML (drilled, paged) and PDF. Very flexible. Can set almost everything in code. Also very... Read more

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True DataControl

Average Review Score: 4 (1)

4 out of 5 stars

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jgyap4 star
The product is good and easy to use. However, the author's technical support's response is poor.

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ComponentOne Query

Average Review Score: 4 (1)

4 out of 5 stars

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andrew.wayAustralia4 star
Overall a great tool for giving the querying power back to the user (without having to write a squillion queries). Of course DBA's will all scream because the user can do some stupid things... but hey... Read more

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