About three years ago, we added a new special component called Transports. They enable to save built reports to the cloud, as well as use files in the cloud (for example, pictures) to build reports. Until now, there were 4 cloud transports: Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and 2 non-cloud t...

Some people need to create PDF documents and at the same time sign them with a digital signature. To solve this issue, you can use FastReport VCL versions 2021.1-2021.4. But what if you need to sign a PDF document with more than one digital signature? This feature was integrated into the new vers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...