Creating reports is not very easy with VB.net or C# especially if your are using express editions. Visual Studio Professional provides Crystal reports which is a design time report designer.
LNSoft Report Designer is an application that can be integrated in an application so that reports can be edited at runtime.
An Object/Relational persistence layer for VB6 and .NET (VB.NET,C#,etc) similar to ObjectSpaces etc. Database interaction is managed transparently at runtime and requires no SQL knowledge. Great performance, caching, flexible O/R mapping and more.