An interesting type of charts, the Gantt chart, appeared with the release of FastReport BusinessGraphics. First of all, it is a popular type of bar charts for displaying plans, schedules of work for any projects. The Gantt chart is one of the project planning methods and is used in project managemen...

CSV files (comma-separated values) are special types of files that you can create, read and edit in Excel. This format is textual and designed to provide tabular data. In CSV documents the data fields are separated by commas instead of columns (commas in English version or semicolons in Russian vers...

Probably many have encountered the problem of using a CSV file as a DataSet in Delphi. Let's have a look at one of the solutions to this problem. We will connect the CSV file via TADOQuery and build a report from this data in FastReport VCL 6. Create a project and add the following components. ...

This article aims to provide the insight into how to use FastReport.Net to merge two logically related CSV files into one. Storing data in CSV files is often very convenient. You can always open such files by any text editor and tweak them. But what if in one document there are references to data f...

Today we will talk about the cases when you need to make a PDF document, but there is no Adobe Acrobat on the computer. You only have a text file with original data and FastReport Desktop. To begin with, you need a test file, in which there is a division into paragraphs (carriage return to a new li...

Do you have a celebration on the occasion of the wedding? Do you need to print a lot of invitations? This can be quite a tedious task. Indeed, in each invitation will have to enter the names of the guests. In this article I will show you how to solve this problem with FastReport. We need to compile...

Suppose you keep a record of employee sales in an Excel file. Would you like to see sales results for the month in the form of a graph. So it's faster and easier to assess the efficiency of the employee. It would be nice to see the difference in terms with the previous day. You need this report ever...

MS Excel spreadsheet editor handles editing CSV files perfectly. You can sort and filter data, remove unnecessary columns, add numbering etc. But what if you do not have a spreadsheet editor? Editing a CSV file becomes a nightmare. One has to track the delimiters to understand what column this or th...

As a follow - up to the previous article about wedding invitations, I would like to talk about the ways how to print envelopes from the address list in a CSV file. Let us suppose, you have a list of people's names and their email addresses. You would like to send them letters with invitations to th...

Not so long ago in FastReport .NET was added the ability to load data from a csv file. In other words, a CSV file can now be used as a data source. This was done after some time from one of the users entered an interesting query to a support. He claimed that he has a CSV file that does not open, in...