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...
Our users often need to change the appearance of the toolbar or customize the export menu, but not everyone knows how to do this. Let’s say that we already have a finished project. As an example, we can use any report from the FastReport .NET demo application. Let’s add some colors to o...
Microsoft has recently launched a web platform called Blazor. This framework allows creating an interactive web interface with the C# language, as well as HTML and CSS. Blazor is highly demanded and rapidly gains popularity among many .NET developers. We have updated the FastReport.Web package, addi...
UPD: Applies to the versions of FastReport .NET before 2022.2. License packages are now available on our NuGet server. With the release of FastReport .NET 2021.1 we’re happy to announce two important things: addition of the FastReport.NET package and the support of .NET 5.0. .NET5.0 suppor...
Sometimes there is a need to use parts of one report in another. In simple cases, you can use report inheritance to do this. For example, there is a case when all reports have common elements (a company logo, signature, etc.). Then these objects can be moved to a parent report and when creating chi...
Recently many countries digitize payments. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high damage resistance, no n...
Without reporting it is impossible to carry on business in any sphere of life. Bureaucracy is an irresistible part of human society. Whether it's steel plant or a school facultative - reports are needed everywhere: accounting, statistical, operational. Since the modern world strongly computerized - ...
Many people have heard of this, but not many use it in their code. Meanwhile, no serious programs with client-server architecture will do without asynchronous programming. Exchange of data with the database, the interaction of the client and the server - this takes time, which can be occupied by oth...
The yield return operator is one of the least known among programmers using C#. At least among beginners. And even those who know something about it, are not completely sure that they understand the principle of its work correctly. This annoying gap must be corrected. And, I hope this article will h...
Today I would like to talk about the way the foreach loop works inside. We all know that a foreach loop is - a loop that iterates through all the elements of the collection. Its greatest advantage in the ease of use - we do not need to worry about how many elements in the collection. However, many ...
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...