How to download a report in PDF format with FastReport Core
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
In this article we will continue covering the topic "FastReport Core + .Net Core". In the previous article we have illustrated how to display a report by exporting it to the HTML format. Now I will show how to organize downloading of a report from a browser to a local computer, using a button. We wi...
How to use FastReport Core in Windows
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
Until now, it has not been possible to use Fast Report in projects, based on .Net Core. But this is an increasingly popular developing framework. Developers of FastReport.Net were not long in coming and presented a new product - the FastReport Core. It will be distributed as a part of the editions o...
How to use FastReport Core in Linux
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
In the previous article we have considered the easiest example of using a new product of FastReport - the FastReport Core. That was an example for Windows. This time we will overview an example for Linux. First of all, for Linux need additional libraries, which may not be installed by default: L...
FastReport.Net Core
Author - Anatoly Kukuyuk
FastReport.Net 2017.4 now supports .Net Core, so users can utilize FastReport.Net in Windows, Linux and Docker containers. For using it under Linux one needs XServer, the "libgdiplus" and the "libx11-dev" libraries. The package includes a demo version, which allows to check whether FR.Net is working...
FastReport.Net bands
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
A report page in FastReport.Net must contain at least one band - a container for objects. But for one it might seem too complicated. Why don't we place objects directly on pages without additional containers? However, it is rather difficult to imagine how the system would work without using any band...
How to use an SVG object in FastReport.Net
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
Sadly, the issue of vector graphics in FastReport.Net has been poorly worked out. In the designer there is a small set of figures and polygons, but there is no information on how to use files with vector graphics. Quite recently a plug-in for the report designer has appeared. It adds a new SVG objec...
Online Designer for what and how
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
FastReport.Net follows modern trends and pays a lot of time for web reports. Such reports can be placed on any web resource that supports html, because the web report is nothing more than exporting the report to html. Thanks to the integration with ASP.Net, we can work with the report object as well...
How to make a PDF document from a text file
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
Today we will talk about the cases when you need to make a PDF document, but there is no Adobe Acrobat on the computer. You only have a text file with original data and FastReport Desktop. To begin with, you need a test file, in which there is a division into paragraphs (carriage return to a new li...
How to make wedding invitations from Excel
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
Do you have a celebration on the occasion of the wedding? Do you need to print a lot of invitations? This can be quite a tedious task. Indeed, in each invitation will have to enter the names of the guests. In this article I will show you how to solve this problem with FastReport. We need to compile...
How to build daily graphics from csv files
Author - Dmitriy Fedyashov
Suppose you keep a record of employee sales in an Excel file. Would you like to see sales results for the month in the form of a graph. So it's faster and easier to assess the efficiency of the employee. It would be nice to see the difference in terms with the previous day. You need this report ever...