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I'm writing a Winforms application and I've been writing these awful HTML reports where I have templates set up and use String.Replace to get my variables into the templates, then output the results to a WebBrowser control. I really don't like this set up.
I'd love to be able to use ASP.NET for my reports, but my clients don't want to have to run IIS on all the machines this is getting installed on, so that's not really an option.
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WinForms won't be deprecated until Win32 is ... which could be quite sometime! WPF on the other hand has few direct dependencies on Win32 so could potentially form the basis of a "fresh start" UI layer on a future version of windows.
Have you tried the reportviewer control? Your customers will be happy with the fancy new reports. It is template based and can include data from database or from code data, you can use parameters, images, and the result can be exported to Excel or to PDF.
Plus the control has some basic functionality like paging, zooming, printing, finding...
Why do you need ASP.NET? I don't see, what difference it can make. Maybe you can render your HTML more easily, but it's still not "real" reporting.
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