We often use zebra striping of table data for easy viewing the reports. Highlighting even rows is good for viewing but they look strange on paper or in Excel table. FastReport users have two methods for using highlighting only in preview window. Method #1 You need to open report in the Designer a...
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We have released FastReport .NET 2013.2 with MVC support. And I'd like to inform all WebReport developers about some changes. First. An extension of the handler in web.config was changed. You need replace old string «FastReport.Export.aspx» to new string «FastReport.Export.axd&raq...
Calling "FastReport COM/ActiveX" from C# applications on 64-bit platforms. Simple solution: It is necessary to set 32-bit platform in project options. Here is an example (note: platform target is x86): Perfect solution: Download demo version of FastReport.NET. Use this tool for conversion FR...
There is a possibility of executing an ASP.NET web application under the Apache web server that is running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and others operating systems. You may need to install several packages: the Apache web server the runtime Mono mod_mono xsp server (implements ASP.NET-...
FastReport.VCL with the very first version uses the original realization of SMTP protocol, written for sending generated reports via email. Excellent implementation, which is used by many users. These days some providers of postal services have demanded secure authentication to send mail, therefore ...
We often get questions about running FastReport.Mono on Mac OS X - people ask how to run Microsoft (exe) files on Apple devices. The answer lies in the product name - you should install Mono Framework on your device before running the report generator. Here is URL for MonoFramework: https://downloa...
Inside of TrueType font Most used today font type is the TrueType fonts. TrueType technology was invented by Apple in late 1980. Now TrueType standard dominates over all other font types. Are there any reasons to know what is font? I know at least a single reason – embedding fonts into documen...
At 7th of February I took a part in Embarcadero webinar RAD Studio Reporting with FastReport. Here you can see my presentation video Thanks to all attendees for participation and for questions! We got set of different interesting questions. I think answers will be useful for all. Here there are: Q: ...
On-the-fly data aggregation of "flat" database tables is one of the first tasks faced by information system developers and their users. At the same time it is usually difficult to foresee the user needs in terms of data selection criteria (filters), dimensions in which the data needs to be aggregate...
You've probably heard that our team is working on porting the FastReport.NET to the Mono platform - we told this at our conference, held last year in Rostov-on-Don. Then followed a long silence, and now we are ready to show where do we go. The main feature of this demo is that it can work in Wind...