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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Windows 11, which was announced in the middle of the year, caused heated discussions and sparked a lot of comments asking “why?”. Microsoft argued that they needed changes because during the pandemic people use more computers to solve everyday and business tasks, surf more, play with ...

The new version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 has become one of the high-profile software releases in 2021. Many people fell in love with this great tool designed for developers. Today we can say that modern Visual Studio (we will use VS) is perhaps the best IDE. Microsoft pays a lot of attention ...

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...

Few people know that FastReport .NET report generator allows you to quickly convert an RTF document into any other format supported by the FastReport .NET report generator. For example, you have a number of documents in RTF format and you would like to convert them into another format or just cr...