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.
...It includes a WYSIWYG-Editor to design the PDF-Documents and a Interface to Link SQL-Queries with Fields on the PDFs. Databases are Access(OleDb), MySql(-Client), MS Sql(-Client), all Odbc. Uses itext.