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We have excellent news for you! New version of FastReport FMX can work with Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5. You need upgrade your FastReport FMX via cpanel for 30% discount. Users who bought a product for last 6 month will get this version for free! Full change list:  + Added support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 (iOS not supported) for both Delphi and C++Builder developing environment + Added PDF export for both OSX and WIn platforms including font embedding/links/outlines + Added support of C++Builder for OSX platform (some properties changed to Double type from extended) + Added FireDac internal components+ Added TeeChart Pro packages support+ Added font editor dialog- Improved speed in the report designer when editing reports with many objects- Fixed Styles editor in the report designer- Fixed export of wrapped text- Fixed chart printing under WIN platform- Fixed printing from application compiled with XE4/XE5- Fixed problem with TfrxPictureView with Stretched = false- Fixed problem with accessing some properties of object in designer menu (fast access menu)- Fixed problem with calculation of the memo size (cut off text in crosstab)- Fixed bugs with TfrxPreview component- Fixed minor problems in many editors dialogs

We prepared web-report online demo. You can to try new features from your browsers: 1. https://fast-report.com:2013 - Online demo of report is available also for iOS and Android devices2. https://fast-report.com:2013/razor - Online demo of MVC3 technology We will release more online things in next versions :-)  Other features of 2013.4: + updated documentation on German and English + added multi tabs preview in WebReport+ added export in XAML+ added linear gauge object in designer+ added demo report for linear gauge (Gauge.frx)* show band name in the total editor form's band combobox- fixed bug in PDF export with extra large bitmaps- fixed bug with rendering of ASP.NET WebReport control in design-time- fixed bug with PrintOn.FirstPage | PrintOn.LastPage- fixed bug with digit count in numbers in exports- fixed bug with invisible objects (out of page bounds) in table-based exports- fixed bug with line spacing in layered export in Word 2007

Traditionally supports the most wide range of Delphi versions (from 4th to XE5 for today).64x supports as well as 32x (sorry we forgot to write about at the previous release where whas also).C++Builder SUpport as well as Delphi (yes XE5 is supporting now too). Traditionally Fast Reporting and XML as the main report format. + Added Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 support+ Added Internal components for FireDac database engine+ fixed bug with images in PDF export for OSX and iOS viewers+ Added ability to set font charset to default in Style Editor- fixed duplex problem when printing several copies of the report- fixed problem with PNG images- fixed problem with TfrxPictureView transparent   If you need a little bit much more than internal FastReport VCL Embarcadero Edition - see comparison table P.S. Sorry, we are working hard on FastReport VCL 5 now, so no so many changes. Follow our news :-)

+ added support of Embarcadero Rad Studio XE5 for VCL x32/x64 compilators. + added support of Embarcadero Rad Studio XE5 FireMonkey framework (2) for Windows x32/x64 and OSX platforms.

Desktop OLAP components set which supports Delphi/C++Builder/RAD Studio from 7th version upto XE5 Brief review of news in the 2nd version: I. Grids1. Improvements to source data grid2. Closer to the native look of Windows with enabled themes3. Gradient drawing II. Data analysis1. Optimized axis operations2. New dimension attribute for single choice (radio filter)3. improvements in Groups and 4. Totals5. Ranks for measures6. Tree-like axis7. Data highlighting styles8. Status panel9. Advanced using of FastScript10. New export filters III. Cube1. Splits2. Loading from custom storage3. Data conversion during the load process4. Custom field calculation during the load process5. Add/remove operations on fields after the load6. Append data to an active cube IV. Global filterV. And much more If you are our customer of VCL-components — login to customer panel and get FastCube 2 with discount!

Today we review the simplest way to use the library FastReport.Service.dll as WCF service. This example does not require programming and is intended for testing of library and configuration file. To complete the task, we use the programWcfSvcHost.exe, that comes with Visual Studio Read more...

FastReport.NET presents new opportunity for building safe and secure application on FastReport.Service (WCF Service Library). This library can be used for stand-alone application Windows Service and Web-Service in your product. Also added new demos: WCFWindowsService, WCFWebService, WCFClient, WCFWebClient.  + added new object SparklineObject (compact chart based on MSChartObject)+ added save to FTP from preview+ added Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Library FastReport.Service.dll+ added demo of Windows Service \Demos\C#\WCFWindowsService with WCF Service Library+ added demo of WCF web-service \Demos\C#\WCFWebService + added demo of WCF Windows client \Demos\C#\WCFClient + added demo of WCF web-client \Demos\C#\WCFWebClient+ added new methods WebReportGlobals.ScriptsWOjQuery() and WebReportGlobals.StylesWOjQuery() for disable jQuery in WebReport (MVC Razor)+ added property WebReport.ExternalJquery (default: false) for enable or disable jQuery in WebReport (ASPX)+ added WeekOfYear function+ added Slovenian localization* report.RegisterData(ds) replace existing datasources- fixed bug with the re-export to PDF from code- fixed bug in PDF export with print from Acrobat Reader with hyperlinks in document- fixed bug in Excel 2007 export with styles for multi-page report template- fixed bug in Excel 2007 export with empty page name- fixed bug in PDF export with double frame borders