Many need a solution that will generate reports for Linux systems, and support working with SQL-like databases and not only. We have such a solution FastReport.Core. This library allows you to create reports under different Linux distributions and it can connect to different databases. In this ar...
Visual Studio
The Visual Basic .NET programming language is seen by many as an entry-level language. But this, of course, is not the case. We’ve got used to knowing that Visual Basic.NET is most often used in Desktop applications. However, this language allows much more - for example, to create web appli...
The new version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 has become one of the high-profile software releases in 2021. Many people fell in love with this great tool designed for developers. Today we can say that modern Visual Studio (we will use VS) is perhaps the best IDE. Microsoft pays a lot of attention ...
Often, our users need to change the file export parameters, and we will look at their implementation today. This feature was integrated into the 2022.1 release. Let's say that we have a finished project. Let's take any report from the FastReport .NET demo application and add additional parameters...
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...
To host the created applications on Internet servers, you need a web server. Today we will launch our web application on IIS (Internet Information Services). It is a web server for hosting sites on the Internet. It is more often used to host web servers under server operating systems with a Windows ...
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...
Often, the developers of report generators create their formats to store templates. For example, FastReport uses the .frx format for storing templates and .fpx for storing reports to be exported and Crystal Reports uses .rpt files. This article will tell how to import a report template from RPT ...
This article shows how to install FastReport Business Graphics .NET on your computer and how to add Business Graphics components in Visual Studio. First, download the FastReport Business Graphics installer. You will find it in your user panel. Agree to the terms of the license agreement and enter...
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...
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...
It is difficult to imagine data analysis without OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) technology. Although there are differing opinions about whether OLAP should be considered a technology or ideology. After all, OLAP can be imagined as a complex multi-dimensional cube, and as ordinary cross-tables ...
The concept of one-page apps is finding an increasing number of supporters. One of the most famous one-page frameworks is Angular, which is a one-page JavaScript application framework. The first version of Angular was really based on JavaScript. But all subsequent versions are already working on Typ...
In this article, I would like to do a test of compatibility of FastReport .Net and the latest version of MS Visual Studio Enterprise 2017. In the function of the first test, I will create a simple application in WindowsForms. Then, I will add the Report component and launch a report in the designer...
Introduction Release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview includes new version of C# and VB.NET compilers called "Roslyn".Roslyn is a complete rewrite of C# and VB.NET compilers; if previously they were written in C++, now C# compiler is written in C#, and VB.NET compiler - in VB.NET respectively. Also Ro...
Sometimes when we develop the WPF applications we need create tables with different configurations for output any data. Using the base tools of Visual Studio or Blend do not allow to reach the desired result or not always possible. Objects can be added programmatically to the form directly in the...
Visual Studio Express Edition by Microsoft is a popular software development enveronment. It is popular also because it is free. By the way this tool as all that is free has some lacks. In particular complexities with using some add-onces, third party components. For example many popular component...