At the new work place I got to deal with the report generator FastReport .NET. Previously, I had to deal with other reporting systems, for example, Crystal Reports and Microsoft Reporting Services. However, FastReport pleasantly surprised me. It's a really powerful tool with broad functionality. On...
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Usually reports are stored in one place but in separate files. With the increasing amount of files there are difficulties in structuring and searching. Reflecting on this subject, I came across one very interesting property of the Report object - ReportSourceString. This property holds the entire re...
You can download the trial version of FastReport .NET from the developer site www.fast-report.com. Run the installation file FRNetDemo.msi with administrator rights. You will see a window with installation steps. Click Next to start the installation. The next window offers to read the terms of t...
If you create a report along with the client application, it is logical to create a single source of data in a program and use it in many reports. This article will focus on the connection of the report FastReport .NET applications to the data source. It is best to demonstrate the process by an ex...
Memory problem When working with complex reports, which use the internal script, I noticed a significant consumption of RAM. For web services this may be critical. Why is this happening? After compilation of the report script a small library (assembly) remains in memory. It persists by the framewo...
One of the non-trivial task that can be given to a developer is the report localization. In other words - creation of multilingual reports. What does it mean? For different languages the same report template is applied. Language header and data can be specified by user or a program. Such reports a...
There are times when you need to highlight some of the data when analyzing tables. Usually, when we review a paper version of the document, we highlight a data using a marker. But why not do it at once, during the formation of the table? FastReport .NET allows you to highlight the data depending ...
One of the first questions that arises when the developer in the study of FastReport .Net - how to connect data to the report? Fortunately, this report generator has an intuitive interface designer. However, I'm still saving your time, by talking a little about connecting the source of the data wit...
In this article, I would like to talk about the use of styles in FastReport .NET. Indeed, many people underestimate this feature. They think that styles helps bring documents to a unified specie. Almost every user faced with a text editor Microsoft Word. And most know that styles help instantly cha...
In our previous entry you have already seen an example of a simple report and now it is time to create a little more complicated report with embedded picture. We created single band, then put PictureObject on it and load picture into it. After that we have added two memo fields: еру first one for h...