CSV files (comma-separated values) are special types of files that you can create, read and edit in Excel. This format is textual and designed to provide tabular data. In CSV documents the data fields are separated by commas instead of columns (commas in English version or semicolons in Russian vers...

A developer has a huge choice of options when the task is to export to Excel from Delphi or Lazarus – it was partially described in the article “How to export a report to XLS Biff8 from Delphi” and there I also briefly explained why it is a bad choice. And what is a good choice, th...

Oh, it’s an eternal topic – creating an Excel spreadsheet from Delphi. Excel spreadsheets are one of the world’s standards today and for programs, even simple ones, it is frequently required to output the data as tables and transfer reports to the spreadsheet. One thing to notice i...

Quite often, you need to get a PDF document from a Pascal application - either Delphi or Lazarus. Usually it is recommended to use specialized solutions, PDF converters (such as itext, Synopse PDF Engine, PowerPDF, HotPDF, PDF Creator Pilot, PDFtoolkit VCL, Debenu Quick PDF Library etc.). In this ar...

Thanks a lot all atendees of our webinar with Embarcadero Technologies. We hope than you are got new uesful information and as usually publishing questions and answers from this event. Q: Can an Excel report include formulas?A: Not yet, but we're planning to impliment such feature. Q: A program ma...

Visual Studio Express Edition by Microsoft is a popular software development enveronment. It is popular also because it is free. By the way this tool as all that is free has some lacks. In particular complexities with using some add-onces, third party components. For example many popular component...

At 7th of February I took a part in Embarcadero webinar RAD Studio Reporting with FastReport. Here you can see my presentation video Thanks to all attendees for participation and for questions! We got set of different interesting questions. I think answers will be useful for all. Here there are: Q: ...

Yes, it is possible. Our team are preparing now FastReport.Net Mono Edition. Let see screenshots: FastReport.Net demo in the "strange OS" FastReport.Net report designer in the same OS.

At the requests of our customers FastReport VCL 4.11 released. The most important innovation - a new direct export to BIFF8 (Excel). By this new export filter now is it possible to write generated reports directly to Excel format, without third-party programs and technologies. Early in FastReport ...