As you probably know, reports in FastReport.Net can be created not only in a special designer, but also from the code of the user application. At the same time, instead of the usual file with frx extension, you will get a class of report. It can be converted into a library and used in different proj...

Sybase SQL Anywhere database has a number of very useful features that make it very competitive in comparison with competitors. First, it allows you to handle very large volumes of data. Secondly - it is highly productive, that is, despite the offer large volumes of data fast. Thirdly it requires mi...

The main report viewing tool FastReport.Net is Viewer. This viewer has a rich toolkit for storing, exporting, printing, and other manipulations with a report. All this variety is very useful but not always necessary. For example, for users who only view and print reports export emailing is absolute...

Quite often there is a need to set various images in the report depending on any conditions or input parameters. This problem was encountered by the user of the List & Label report generator: Is there a way to programmatically insert an inline image into a List & Label document from .net co...

Sometimes your work needs one and the same report, but with a few changes. For example, different headers for different departments. So, for example, a user of the ActiveReports report generator wants to create such a report: For example, the user select copies for the customer and for administrati...

The theme for this article was one of the questions users of the generator List & Label reporting on the support forum. I need to create a package of documents into 1 PDF file. So far I am able to create individual PDF file but I am not sure how to combine them. Can LL21 do this or I need to fi...

Many modern report generators allow you to embed another report, the so-called sub-report. Why would you do that? For example, for the convenience of designing a report. If the main report and sub-report have a different type, it is easier to create them separately. In addition, by dividing the rep...

Most report generators have a report-viewing mode with a toolbar from which you can make various manipulations of the report. For example, flipping through pages, printing, exporting and more. However, sometimes there is not enough buttons with any functionality. This can be a quick export to some f...

An important part of the report is a graphical component, namely graphs and charts. They allow you to quickly analyse the data to assess the trend of growth or fall, or just quickly read information. That is how human perception works, that the graphic information is received more quickly. Therefore...

Most reports display some data. Typically, this data is obtained from databases. Therefore, the report has a connection to the data source in order to have a list of available tables and fields, as well as the data itself. But what if at the time of writing the report, you only had a local database ...

First of all, you need to assemble a plug-in connector library to the database for the reporting designer. It is located in a folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\FastReports\FastReport.Net\Extras\Connections\FastReport.MongoDB Open the project, restore NuGet packets and reassemble it. As a result, in t...

The dialogue forms in a report are mainly needed to filter the data. As a rule, controls are placed on the form, with the help of which values are set. Then, these values are used to further filter the data. But most of the controls allow you to filter the data directly. That is, they can be linked ...

The Vista database will fall into the type of embedded databases. These databases differ from client server databases in that they are designed to be embedded in a client application as a file. The range of tasks of such a base will also be different from the database. Typically, these are databases...

First of all, you can use the ODBC connector. But it is fraught with a lot of settings. As you can see, you need to create the data source and the connection string to it. Relatively a lot of action. An alternative to this method is to use connector from FastReport. In fact there are two connect...

To connect the report to a DB2 database, you need to connect the plugin to the designer reports. This plug is a connector. But first you need to collect this connector from the project: С:\Program Files (x86)\FastReports\FastReport.Net\Extras\Connections\FastReport.DB2 The resulting FastReport.DB2...

In order to connect to Firebird database in FastReport.Net Designer a plug-in connector is provided. It is necessary to pre-assemble the project: С:\Program Files (x86)\FastReports\FastReport.Net\Extras\Connections\FastReport.Firebird Then you have to connect the plug-in report designer in the men...

NosDB is a prominent representative of the NoSQL databases. It is designed for use on the .Net platform and has open source. NosDb, like many other non-relational databases, has a high speed and good linear scalability. In this article, we'll look at the way to connect to the NosDb database inside t...

Recently, the NoSQL database is gaining more and more popularity. They differ favourably from conventional relational databases and provide the following: high resilience, incredibly large amounts of data, good scalability, clustering. One of the new NoSQL databases is RavenDB. This is a document-o...

Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition is a simple local relational database that doesn't require installation, and the connection is made to the database file. You do not need admin rights to work with the base. You can only "password" the base. For many developers, such a simple database is simply n...