This article continues the previous article, in which we looked at how to create a complex report. The report created in that article has become a source of inspiration for a new object - AdvancedMatrix. The report in the previous article included three sections: 1) yearly statistics;2) quarterly ...

The demanding criteria for modern electronic reports are quite high — they must not only display the necessary information, but have a certain design, data format, and graphic content. A modern report is a complex document with design elements. The rapid development of report generators has in...

FastReport Business Graphics library contains a set of classes that developers can use in their applications to visualize data and build business charts. In this article, we will explore one of such classes - the Bubble chart. It makes sense to start the Bubble chart overview by comparing it to ...

As you already know, FastReport.NET reports can have dialog forms that are displayed before the report is built. They allow you to set some text, boolean or numeric variables. These can be text fields, tables, lists, dropdowns, dates, checkboxes, and even lists with checkboxes. As a rule, dialog...

More recently, the AdvancedMatrix object was implemented in FastReport .NET. In this article, we will look at the structure of the new matrix, its new features, and compare the old and new matrix. First, let's look at the structure of the matrix. It consists of the following elements: The st...

With the release of FastReport .NET 2022.2, we added a plug-in to connect .XLSX files as a data source. To use it, you must first build the project: С:\Program Files (x86)\FastReports\FastReport.Net\Extras\Core\FastReport.Data\FastReport.Data.Excel After building the project, you will need to ...

A ruler has been added to the RichText editor. It allows users to control tab width and set indents before the left and right margins. To add a tab stop, you need to double-click the left mouse button on the horizontal ruler in the place where it is needed. An "arrow" will appear in the selected ...

If you need to print particular pages of the report in several copies, we have to use an encoding. You can configure printing properties from the user application code, as well as manually in the print dialog box. This enables you to choose particular pages of the report and set a number of copie...

The Visual Basic .NET programming language is seen by many as an entry-level language. But this, of course, is not the case. We’ve got used to knowing that Visual Basic.NET is most often used in Desktop applications. However, this language allows much more - for example, to create web appli...

Sometimes creating a report can turn into to be a real headache. For example, when you need to manage the content of the report based on the conditions in the program. It is easier to do this in the program code than to transfer parameters to the report and develop the report script logic. Today we...

In the article on working with NuGet packages we considered all the specific features of using with Fast Reports software. One of the most frequent questions of our clients is the following one: How do we install your licence packages in our product using Linux, MacOS or Windows so that we won&rsq...

Let's remember a fairly common situation when you need to do something very quickly and using whatever is available. But let's not forget that the structure and content of the report depend on external factors. The FastReport.NET report generator is a very flexible product and gives you two ways to ...

Often, our users need to change the file export parameters, and we will look at their implementation today. This feature was integrated into the 2022.1 release. Let's say that we have a finished project. Let's take any report from the FastReport .NET demo application and add additional parameters...

We have added the following barcodes: – GS1 Databar Limited; – GS1 Databar Omnidirectional; – GS1 Databar Stacked; – GS1 Databar Stacked Omnidirectional. GS1 DataBar is a highly versatile product labeling symbol primarily intended for scanning at POS terminals. GS1 Da...

Watermark exports to .DOCX and .RTF files have been added in FastReport .NET. limitation - the sign cannot be positioned above the text. A watermark is a text or image (mostly semi-transparent) that is superimposed so that it does not interfere with viewing the document. It is used to protect the c...

UPD: Applies to the versions of FastReport .NET before 2022.2. License packages are now available on our NuGet server. NuGet is an open source package management system for Microsoft development platforms (formerly known as NuPack). NuGet is an extension (add-on) for easily adding, removing, an...

CODE 128 is the barcode developed by Computer Identics Corporation (U.S.A.) in 1981. CODE 128 can represent all 128 ASCII code characters (numbers, upper case/lower case letters, symbols and control codes). Since it can represent all characters (except Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana) that ...

It looks like that lockdown was not hard for Microsoft. This year, the Plenty’s Horn opened and we had a shower with new software products — the long-awaited Windows 11, and the new Visual Studio 22, and, of course, .NET 6.0. This is good news in these bad times. Let's talk about the...

Docker is a software platform for rapid development, testing and launching of applications. Due to it, one may locate multiple containers on one server. The containers are understood as integrity of our application, its dependences, and image. One should remember that an image is a template which re...