Data sources do not always contain data. And when you build reports, even if the data source is empty, the page will be created, at least with headlines. On report generator forums, you can find questions from users about how to hide blank pages: "Please tell me how to skip (not print) a blank pag...
Most advanced report generators let us generate reports for web applications. When displaying reports to users, consider the ability to navigate on their web pages, send to print, export to any format, and other functions. This is usually a special toolbar in the report output window. Quite often, ...
ASP.Net Core Framework is a cross-platform solution for creating web applications. This means that you can develop in various operating systems and applications created will also work in them. These and other benefits have made ASP.Net Core very popular. Many desktop developers who wrote in C# langu...
As you can see from the name, Windows Forms type of applications is designed to work in the Windows environment. For example, good old MS Word or Calculator application and many other programs with window interface. This actually is the whole API for working with the Windows GUI, which is part of th...
Recently many countries digitize payments. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high damage resistance, no n...
When you develop the same reports, or reports with the same bands, you can use the inheritance of reports. That is a basic report that will be used as a basis for others. This will provide a uniform component to the set of reports you create. Just working with such a set of identical reports, the u...
Many users of report generators are interested in setting up the toolbar when reviewing the report. Such questions appear periodically on forums and questionnaires. Like this user of the DevExpress report generator who wants to customize the web report toolbar ASP.Net MVC. In some cases, the user w...
Report designer is replete with lots of features that many users do not use. Sometimes the variety of icons and menus only distracts. Therefore, many users would like to have a simplified version of the report designer with only the functions they need. This, the report designer can be customized to...
Report designer has a lot of useful features. This is a complete development environment with many options, a full study of which will require a lot of time. But what if you need to develop simple reports, or do not need to be developed, but only edit existing ones. Then the complex interface and re...
Sometimes I'm having a situation where you need to set up a web report to another data source. This may be necessary if the report was developed with the use of the test database, or a database simply "moved" to another location. Or maybe the other way around you need to connect a report to the test...
Often, when creating reports, we have to deal with databases that are far from ideal. The various "features", sometimes get us stuck. For example, how to build a report based on multiple datasets, which will result in MS SQL stored procedures? When you create a data source in the report, we can use ...
Many users of report generators fairly standard functionality in their everyday work. But sometimes they have to deal with non-trivial tasks, and then search for a solution may take a lot of time and effort. But perhaps the best solution is to ask the developers to get the most qualified assistance....
Sorting data is one of the most important data processing tools. We can say, it is the basis of the analysis. Analysing chaotic output data is almost impossible. Therefore, sorting provides all the tools that work with data. This also applies to reporting tools. After all, the data source may provid...
When you create reports, you often need to transfer some values from outside. This is to filter the data into the report, or to manage the logic of the report. In my practice of using FastReport.Net, I often encounter this need. Since I mostly work with web reports, I pass the parameters into the re...
When making the report, we want it to be "friendly" to the consumers as much as possible. Too much data and design elements processing makes people's understanding of information more unfavourable. As a result, many people want to delete spaces in a table without data. FastReport.Net report generato...
Gentlemen, jokes aside! Today we are talking about toilet paper. This essential hygiene product was only recently developed in the United States in the 19th century. But to be honest, toilet paper was first mentioned in China as early as the 6th century, but this product was only available for a nar...
As you probably know, reports in FastReport.Net can be created not only in a special designer, but also from the code of the user application. At the same time, instead of the usual file with frx extension, you will get a class of report. It can be converted into a library and used in different proj...
Sybase SQL Anywhere database has a number of very useful features that make it very competitive in comparison with competitors. First, it allows you to handle very large volumes of data. Secondly - it is highly productive, that is, despite the offer large volumes of data fast. Thirdly it requires mi...