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...

Raspberry PI is a miniature single-board computer with ARM processor. This microcomputer is often used as an educational platform or for development of embedded solutions. For our experiments we use Raspberry PI 3B board with 1GB of RAM and the installed Linux Raspbian Buster with desktop operati...

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...

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 ...

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...

Without reporting it is impossible to carry on business in any sphere of life. Bureaucracy is an irresistible part of human society. Whether it's steel plant or a school facultative - reports are needed everywhere: accounting, statistical, operational. Since the modern world strongly computerized - ...

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...

The main report viewing tool FastReport.Net is Viewer. This viewer has a rich toolkit for storing, exporting, printing, and other manipulations with a report. All this variety is very useful but not always necessary. For example, for users who only view and print reports export emailing is absolute...

Quite often there is a need to set various images in the report depending on any conditions or input parameters. This problem was encountered by the user of the List & Label report generator: Is there a way to programmatically insert an inline image into a List & Label document from .net co...

Sometimes your work needs one and the same report, but with a few changes. For example, different headers for different departments. So, for example, a user of the ActiveReports report generator wants to create such a report: For example, the user select copies for the customer and for administrati...

The theme for this article was one of the questions users of the generator List & Label reporting on the support forum. I need to create a package of documents into 1 PDF file. So far I am able to create individual PDF file but I am not sure how to combine them. Can LL21 do this or I need to fi...

Many modern report generators allow you to embed another report, the so-called sub-report. Why would you do that? For example, for the convenience of designing a report. If the main report and sub-report have a different type, it is easier to create them separately. In addition, by dividing the rep...

Most report generators have a report-viewing mode with a toolbar from which you can make various manipulations of the report. For example, flipping through pages, printing, exporting and more. However, sometimes there is not enough buttons with any functionality. This can be a quick export to some f...