With the release of the new version FastReport.Net 2017.1.0 we got a significant acceleration of report building, exporting, and reduced memory consumption. These changes have prompted me to make a comparison test of the "old" and the "new" versions. Testing technique For testing we will build a r...
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In this article I want to consider working with the Configurator, one of the programs of the FastReport Desktop complex. This program is designed to create special configuration files. They are instructions for the report builder, they specify actions with the report. Namely: export the report to va...
FastReport Desktop includes a console report builder. Report Builder is a console utility for automating operations on reports. It can perform the following operations: Batch processing of reports; Export to all available formats; Connection of the data source; Sending the result by e-mail; ...
Often the company needs to generate periodic reports, send them to e-mail or save to a certain place. Having a report generator, it's easy to do. However, you need to create an application that will work with the report generator. This requires some programming skills and experience with the program...
One of the most demanded formats of report exporting is Excel file. It's the most popular format in accounting reporting. You can edit the report in Excel format using MS Excel tools further on. FastReport.Net provides the range of very interesting features of report export in Excel. Let's look at...
Web-reports are very much in demand nowadays. Every day we use the Internet and look through dozens or even hundreds of web-pages. Many businesses strive to make their activities more public and the Internet for this could be better instrument. Thus, it is possible to transfer some of the existing r...
It's nice that the range of formats to export reports to FastReport.Net constantly grows. With the ability to use JSON files as the data sources there appeared export support for this format (2016.2). JSON files are used for data transfer between the client and server web applications. Export save...
Not everyone knows that FastReport .Net allows you to use files of a spreadsheet editor Excel as a data source. It can be both .xls and .xlsx files. In this article we will show how to create such a data source in the report. First of all - about the requirements for Excel documents. Each table sh...
In order to send a data source to a report it must previously be pre-registered in the report. Then, within the report select an available source from the list and only after that - start to work. It would be great if the data source could be available to a paste when you open the report designer. B...
Sometimes with some data sources we have to create aliases for the table fields. This happens when the field names are not understood intuitively or their native language is not used in their naming. For the convenience of working with such a database, FastReport .Net allows you to create aliases. B...