Microsoft has recently launched a web platform called Blazor. This framework allows creating an interactive web interface with the C# language, as well as HTML and CSS. Blazor is highly demanded and rapidly gains popularity among many .NET developers. We have launched a FastReport.Web.Blazor package...
Sometimes there is a need to use parts of one report in another. In simple cases, you can use report inheritance to do this. For example, there is a case when all reports have common elements (a company logo, signature, etc.). Then these objects can be moved to a parent report and when creating chi...
In the previous article about working with charts and graphs, we were already familiar with business graphics and barcodes. Now it is time to complicate the task and work with different data sources. Most reports are typically based on data from databases. To access this data Lazarus provides powerf...
We continue to publish support articles for students as part of the Academy's educational programme. Every developer at some point will need to work with business graphics: diagrams, charts, barcodes. And our FastReport VCL will help them do it! Creation of charts and graphs To draw a diagram the ...
As part of the Academic's educational programme, we have decided to produce some support articles for students. If you are making business or government software that needs to be cross-platform or just run on Linux systems or native operating systems (which are also Linux), you will eventually need...
ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, otherwise known as a high-density code, which can only encode numbers in an even number. Each barcode encodes an odd number with a dark line and an even number with a space in between. To encode an odd number of digits, you must suffix the...
What to do after DropBox stops working with Internet Explorer in OAuth 2.0 authorization mode? Since DropBox stopped supporting Internet Explorer with OAuth 2.0 authorization and the TWebBrowser component was based on Internet Explorer, there was a problem replacing TWebBrowser for authorization in...
How to programmatically set the default email client settings for sending emails from FastReport.NET
Like many other report generators, FastReport .NET allows you to send a report via email in any of the available export formats. You can send an e-mail either in the report preview mode or in the custom application code. To send an email you need to set the sender, recipient settings. On the Accou...
"Drill Down" or "deepening into data" is a concept with many sides, which can refer to actions in tables or in something else that encapsulates information. And plain and simple, it's a drop-down list! One of the most important operations is Drill-Down, for example, in OLAP with cubes, and, in prin...
How to make a mush of data into an informative report? Oracle DB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, FireBird are probably the most popular, but by no means all, of the many DBMSs in which data can be created, populated, modified and managed. Often they are filled with this very data for...