telerik-reporting

Broad question is: Is there anything Telerik Reporting can do that SSRS (2005) cannot? Specifics: We're looking to migrate our current Reporting infrastructure from in-house ASP.NET + Crystal (VS Edition) to something else. Ignoring the cost factor (we have a Telerik license), is there any pros or cons to going with Telerik over SSRS? Key elements we need are: generate reports from a custom ASP.NET application schedule reports email reports on demand or on a schedule pdf output, drilldown html massage the dataset in C# before passing it to the rendering engine Any experiences or sites that

I have a string like this: string s = "This is my string"; I am creating a Telerik report and I need to define a textbox that is the width of my string. However the size property needs to be set to a Unit (Pixel, Point, Inch, etc). How can I convert my string length into, say a Pixel so I can set the width? EDIT: I have tried getting a reference to the graphics object, but this is done in a class that inherits from Telerik.Reporting.Report . Tom Anderson Without using of a control or form: using (System.Drawing.Graphics graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(new Bitmap(1, 1))) { SizeF