When printing labels, price tags, and other formats with limited sizes, there is a challenge where design approaches for such reports are constrained. In such conditions, the text object can only grow to certain sizes, and splitting or migrating the text to another page is not possible. How can we f...
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WebP is a file format developed by Google in 2010. Its feature is an advanced compression algorithm that allows you to reduce the image size without visible quality loss. Starting from version 2023.2.14, FastReport .NET has a plugin that allows opening images in the WebP format. It extends the o...
The latest update in FastReport .NET allows you to add pages from other reports to the developed one. This will help you work with reports faster. Before you would need to merge several files or redo the report manually. To add a page, open the File menu and select Open Page. You will see a f...
The latest update FastReport .NET adds the ability to interact with your reports located on the FastReport Cloud server. Now you can open the file manager in two ways. Through a preview of the prepared report in .fpx format). Using the raw report designer in .frx format). ...
FastReport .NET report templates are stored in frx files, and their internal format is based on XML. This allows to edit the report manually in any text editor. Usually this is not used, but it is needed sometimes. For example, when searching for errors in a report that are difficult to detect in t...
We are pleased to present you a new plug-in for configuring а connection to Cassandra, which is available for FastReport .NET, FastReport Core, FastReport CoreWin, FastReport OpenSource. Let’s note an important detail that the order of the records will be overset because of the CassandraCsD...
In recent years, QR codes have become an everyday part of our lives. They are a two-dimensional barcodes that can be easily read by a digital device and that store information as a series of pixels. They have become widely used in trade, logistics, and production. Unlike a simple barcode, a QR c...
In the new version of FastReport VCL 2022.2, we have added new functions to the report designer that will help you detect the most common errors when developing report templates as well as fix them. FastReport VCL is a report generator with a free layout of objects. This means that objects can b...
As you already know, FastReport.NET reports can have dialog forms that are displayed before the report is built. They allow you to set some text, boolean or numeric variables. These can be text fields, tables, lists, dropdowns, dates, checkboxes, and even lists with checkboxes. As a rule, dialog...
With the release of FastReport .NET 2022.2, we added a plug-in to connect .XLSX files as a data source. To use it, you must first build the project: С:\Program Files (x86)\FastReports\FastReport.Net\Extras\Core\FastReport.Data\FastReport.Data.Excel After building the project, you will need to ...
A ruler has been added to the RichText editor. It allows users to control tab width and set indents before the left and right margins. To add a tab stop, you need to double-click the left mouse button on the horizontal ruler in the place where it is needed. An "arrow" will appear in the selected ...
FastReport Business Graphics is a library containing several advanced means of data visualization. Currently, it contains the Treemap, Sunburst, Icicle charts and the Gantt chart. Today, we will see how to link FastReport Business Graphics .NET to FastReport .NET. It will allow you to use charts fr...
We have improved report and data trees in the FastReport .NET and Mono designer at the request of users. Buttons have been added, which allow to minimize and to expand these trees. The fields for searching tree elements have also been added. This example shows how to minimize and expand report tree...
I guess every WinForms developer came across the idea that the standard form controls look too unitary and that it would be nice to bring more interesting design to the application. So, especially for such cases when we need a special design, Microsoft created a special library – WPF (Windows ...
Most likely every .NET developer started from Windows Forms applications. Countless number of such applications is created every day all around the world. These are the applications that bear the brunt of the user’s daily work, whether it is a text editor or some kind of information accountin...
When you develop the same reports, or reports with the same bands, you can use the inheritance of reports. That is a basic report that will be used as a basis for others. This will provide a uniform component to the set of reports you create. Just working with such a set of identical reports, the u...
Report designer is replete with lots of features that many users do not use. Sometimes the variety of icons and menus only distracts. Therefore, many users would like to have a simplified version of the report designer with only the functions they need. This, the report designer can be customized to...
With this Easter egg, FastReport developers decided to show us an alternative way to use their generator. Based on the report, they created a game - the well-known Minesweeper. Surprisingly, this is indeed possible thanks to the built-in report script. However, this is not just a report from the dem...