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 standardization of payment systems results not only in new standards but also in new documents built on these standards. The reporting system should offer its users a fast and convenient way to create such standard documents. EPC is a European Payments Council standard. It was designed to simpl...

In the new version of FastReport VCL 2022.2, we have added new functions to the report designer that will help you detect the most common errors when developing report templates as well as fix them. FastReport VCL is a report generator with a free layout of objects. This means that objects can b...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...