Sometimes you may need to restrict the users' ability to edit and copy reports. The key is to do it so that they would not even guess that the program uses such a wonderful product as FastReport. Let's talk about how to keep report templates hidden from prying eyes. The idea is pretty simple: to sto...

FastReport Business Graphics is a library containing several advanced means of data visualization. Currently, it contains the Treemap, Sunburst, Icicle charts and the Gantt chart. Today, we will see how to link FastReport Business Graphics .NET to FastReport .NET. It will allow you to use charts fr...

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, and updating libraries and resources in Visual Studio projects based on the .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET. NuGet can be ...

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 ne...

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...

Now FastReport .NET, Core, Mono, and OpenSource products allow connecting to Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a scalable utility program for full-text search and analytics, which allows storing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of data quickly and in real-time mode. You may obtain data in JSON...

FastReport Cloud is a set of tools for building documents. The service allows making reports and documents based on preconceived templates kept in a cloud. The story behind FastReport Cloud FastReport Cloud is based on FastReport .NET library, released in March 2009 and being developed unti...

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 creat...

In this article I would like to tell you about such a powerful opportunity of FastReport as multilevel reports. Their structure can be compared to a tree – a trunk, large branches, thinner branches growing from them, and so on up to leaves – or with a company structure: divisions, subdiv...

An interesting type of charts, the Gantt chart, appeared with the release of FastReport BusinessGraphics. First of all, it is a popular type of bar charts for displaying plans, schedules of work for any projects. The Gantt chart is one of the project planning methods and is used in project managemen...