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We often receive demands for Premium paid support that would include solving the unusual requests. And we are glad to announce that since today we are offering 4 new corporate service plans:“All-Hope-Is-Gone Report”Psychological counselling in case of “Nothing is working!”, “Oh no! Crash!” or “It's all up!”“Night-Of-Strange-Cravings Report”Customer can request for any kind of strange feature (e.g. a video in your report) and we'll get it done over the night.“Careless-ToR Report”We will do the terms of reference for you. What the heck, we'll even write the actual program for you, with all the features and reports!“Gremlin Report”Via FedEx we ship you a personal Gremlin, who will scare off the fails. You won't have to feed him and he also can live in a box he came in.

How to register Json as a data source in FastReport.NET without knowing its schema? If you need to register Json as a data source in FastReport.NET, then you can do it through the registration of business objects. Read here  

We are glad to announce the release of the newer version of FastReport .NET. The main changes include improvement of WebReport and On-line Designer objects interaction, bug patch and rework of the current functionality. And not only that. Here's a full change list: [Core]* updated Japanese resources- fixed bug with opening frx/fpx files with Unicode signature in begin of file- fixed bug with CantFindObject exception in report reader in WebMode- fixed bug with saving empty Excel 2007 files- fixed RichTextQuality in PDF export[Designer]+ added Preview button in File menu in Ribbon toolbar[WebReport]+ added export in Prepared report* page breaks in export to Excel 2007 from WebReport now disabled by default- fixed bug with exception CantFindObject in WebReport- fixed bug with preview from designer in ASPX mode- fixed bug with designer position- fixed bug with report load in designer in ASPX mode[Service]+ added report exporting methods in Service[On-line Report Designer]+ added barcodes Aztec, Plessey, GS1-128/EAN-128+ added support of hierarchical data arrays with BusinessObjects+ added Aliases for data sources+ added copy/paste of TableObject and MatrixObject+ added enable/disable of rows/columns in tabled objects+ added MatrixObject+ added more space between bands+ band height reduced twice on mobile devices+ cancel of creating object by ESC+ added scale of report page with "ctrl + mousewheel"+ added save of report on keys "ctrl + s"+ added corners highlight of selected objects+ added objects SimpleGauge, LinearGauge* changed panels with properties and events* improved work with TableObject* changed design of trees in Report Tree, data and in Expression Editor* improved of parse of report with error reporting * the icons are same as in desktop designer* added tab View change of settings of grid and units * changes in style of object creation* changed search algorithm of objects on page with selection- fixed bug with duplicate component/bands names- fixed bug with cell deletion in table object- fixed bug with deletion of child bands in last band of page- fixed bug with band resize to 0- fixed bug with save of included objects in frx report- fixed bug in TableObject with adding of rows and columns- fixed bug in TableCell with RowSpan and ColSpan - fixed bug with table witdh and height- fixed bug with selecting of non valid fields- fixed bug with showing of messages when toolbar is hidden- fixed bug with moving of child cells of table beside a left side- fixed bug with adding of new object on the mobile devices- fixed bug with create object on scaled page- fixed bug with create object inside a cell of table- fixed bug with positioning of LineObject in Firefox

In FastReport .NET 2015.1 we have released an On-line Report Designer. It can be used directly in the user's browser and allows editing the appearance of a report template, modifying the object properties, and editing the script and events. The full-featured version of the On-line Report Designer is available in the Professional edition of FastReport .NET. A demo version is available in Trial edition. You can download it from our site for free. The evaluation version cannot save reports back in the server. Report Designer is still in development. Some types of objects are not supported yet. Also, you cannot edit dialog forms. All unsupported objects or properties retain their original values and do not change. Read more...

If you bought Delphi XE 7 from September 2014 to January 2015 then you know that it was additionally supplied with FastCube VCL 2. This special offer is over now but we know that some of you are still having difficulties installing the free FastCube. We decided that everyone should be able to use the benefits of full version of FastCube 2. We want all of you to receive access to FastCube VCL 2 along with Delphi XE7 even if it wasn't installed right away. Just visit your customer panel at cp.fast-report.com and get your FastCube 2. In case you missed the special offer – there's one more chance to receive FastCube VCL 2 with 25% discount! Get it here before March 31 - https://www.fast-report.com/en/

Fast Reports is a proud media partner of bit Time Academy online in-depth ‪Delphi‬ training which will take place from 10th to 13th of February presented by bit Time Software. The training will help you improve productivity, quality, robustness and elegance of code. Read all about it and sign up at www.bittime.it/update_online/

On February 13th Fast Reports will take part in Embarcadero Technologies series of webinars “Embarcadero Technology Partner Spotlights”, where our lead developer Denis Zubov will tell you all about rapid report development with FastReport.Presentation will be followed by Q&A session.Sign up at http://forms.embarcadero.com/14Q1TechPartnerSpotlights