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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-packs for .NET have reporting tools in set. Often they use developers environment of Visual Studio (fully or partially) as the visual report development environment. But such way is impossible in Express Edition. FastReport .NET uses another approach. There are own fully independent report designer which can be called from application (from Winforms Edition and higher). That is Visual Studioàs envirinment does not need for visual design of reports. read more...

+ Added Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 support - [Lazarus] fixed bug with text output- [Lazarus] fixed bug with some visual controls in designer- [Lazarus] improved interface of the report preview and designer- [Lazarus] fixed bug with boolean propertyes in script code and expressions- fixed bug with endless loop in TfrxRichView- fixed bug with Unicode in TfrxMemoView appeared in previous release- improved MAPI interface in TfrxExportMail export- fixed some problems with allpication styles XE2/XE3- improved compatibility with Fast Report FMX

Report generator for Embarcadero FireMonkey IDE.  + Added support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 (iOS not supported) + Added support of FireMonkey FM3+ Added support of internal datasets: IBX, DBX, ADO (Win)+ Added new internal dataset TfrxClientDataset (allow to load XML tables from the report)+ Added linear barcodes component (2_5_interleaved, 2_5_industrial, 2_5_matrix, Code39, Code39 Extended, Code128, Code93, Code93 Extended, MSI, PostNet, Codebar, EAN8, EAN13, UPC_A, UPC_E0, UPC_E1, UPC Supp2, UPC Supp5, EAN128)+ Added Hint system in the report designer, preview and the report+ Added 2D barcodes: PDF417, DataMatrix+ Added TfrxDBLookupComboBox control - for compatibility with FR4VCL reports- Fixed error when TfrxPreview wasn't available in the component palette- Fixed some printing problems in XE3- Fixed error with toolbar buttons icons in the report designer- Fixed AV in some report editors- Fixed errors in some dialog form components- Fixed Font height rounding when zooming report- Fixed error when trying to set Color property from the report script code FastReportFMX customers can upgrade to new version for free. FastReport VCL customers can buy via cpanel with 50% discount.   What's New in RAD Studio XE4 - Multi-device, true native app development- Develop apps for iPhone and iPad- iOS user interface controls- Rapid prototyping- IBLite and SQLite iOS database support- Multi-tier client support for DataSnap, web services and enterprise databases- Access more databases, on more devices, more easily with FireDAC- FireMonkey FM3 Application Platform. More information on the Embarcadero website.

We often use zebra striping of table data for easy viewing the reports. Highlighting even rows is good for viewing but they look strange on paper or in Excel table.  FastReport users have two methods for using highlighting only in preview window. Method #1 You need to open report in the Designer and open the Style Editor from Report-Styles menu. Then we add a style with name "EvenRows" and set needed background color for even lines.  Then you need to set a band property EvenStyle = EvenRows. more...

1. Improved integration with FastReport: reports now use grid highlights and style. Fixed cell autosize options: adjust width, adjust width with restrictions and adjust height. 2. Added FireDac support. 3. Extended scripting abilities:  a. «Calc all cells» option –to build calculated measure for empty cells (which does not have records in source dataset),  b. calculate totals with script,  c. “FormulaDetail” aggregate - calculate measure values on source data (not on other measures). 4. Copy to clipboard now copies headers.

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We have released FastReport .Net 2013.2 with MVC support. And I'd like to inform all WebReport developers about some changes. First. An extension of the handler in web.config was changed. You need replace old string «FastReport.Export.aspx» to new string «FastReport.Export.axd» everywere. Web application without these changes will throw an exception and you will see text with error and instructions for changes in web.report. more...