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What's new in version 2021.4 of FastReport .NET? Important! Editions changes The WinForms and Win+WebForms editions will no longer be supported. Instead, we added a new Standard edition that includes Windows Forms components, ASP.NET components, and .NET Core / .NET 5 / Blazor support. New features Added new Visual Studio-styled icons. You may switch between icon packs in the "View/Options/User Interface" window (or, "File/Options/User Interface" if you use ribbon UI): ...

We are pleased to present you the long-awaited release of Lazarus version 2.2.0, in which we implemented the full-fledged function to work with packages without source code. On that occasion, we are releasing new edition of FastReport for Lazarus, namely Trial. The content of the article: 1. comparison of FastReport editions for Lazarus; 2. installing FastReport in Lazarus;  2.1 installation ...

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... ...

Avalonia UI is a .NET-based framework widely used for cross-platform user interface development. With a universal API for building applications, Avalonia supports all major platforms and runtime environments and has its unique interface. This ensures that your business solutions will look identical on each operating system. FastReport Avalonia includes a powerful data processing core, a familiar report designer, and a viewer for ready-made reports. Additionally, the new product supports all export formats for the generated report, such as PDF, Excel, MS Word, and many others. The library is fully backward compatible with FastReport WPF, FastReport .NET, and FastReport Mono. It supports Avalonia UI, .NET 7, and .NET 8. In this article, we will explain in detail how to run FastReport Avalonia on the MacOS operating system using the Visual Studio IDE.   Preparatory stage First of all, we need to install Visual Stud ...

CODE 128 is the barcode developed by Computer Identics Corporation (U.S.A.) in 1981. CODE 128 can represent all 128 ASCII code characters (numbers, upper case/lower case letters, symbols and control codes). Since it can represent all characters (except Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana) that can be used with a computer keyboard, it is a computer friendly barcode.Code-128 can be very compact due to the "double-density compression" of data, when two numbers are written into one barcode modulus. The Code-128 barcode contains 107 characters,103 of them are data characters, 3 start, and 1 stop character. To encode all 128 ASCII characters, there are three sets of Code ...

The knockout.js library was quite popular among web developers before the appearance of angular. Despite the obvious advantages of angular, knockout is still in demand. Many web applications are written on it. Some of them need reporting. Therefore, we will discuss in this article how to integrate the FastReport online report designer into the application, with the client part on the knockout, and the server part on the ASP.Net Core. First of all, we need the Knockout application template for the dotnet platform. You must have the NET Core 2.0 SDK or MS Visual Studio 2017 installed. Open the Windows command prompt. Go to the directory where you plan to create the application. Enter the command: dotnet new — install Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaTemplates::* As a result, we should see a list of available one-page application templates: < ...

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Not so long ago we have added support of Lazarus IDE for FastReport 4 VCL (starts from Pro version, because Lazarus updates recently and require source codes for recompilation). As it's still in the beta stage there is no any detailed instruction about its installation, yet. This basic article will explain how to install Fast Report 4 under lazarus and issues you may have. First of all you need a FastReport 4 VCL (Pro version or above. Or you can try our trial version compiled under Lazarus 1.0.8) installation (you can use source only installation) and Lazarus IDE (with FPC) installed. After we have FastReport 4 VCL installed we can compile its packages using Lazarus. Lets start from Win32 compilation: Run Lazarus IDE (under win32 FastReport works with standard widgets set you don't need to do any additional recompilation). In Lazarus IDE follow "Packages" -> "Open package (*.lpk)". ...

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 format created in Crystal Reports to FRX format, which is used in FastReport. To import templates, you’ll need the desktop report designer. The import is possible when the correct RPT file is opened. You can add this f ...

Fast Report Inc. Sponsors Delphi Developer Days 2011 and MindTheBird Global Campaign Fast Report Inc., a leading developer of the fast reporting software, is proud to announce its sponsorship of upcoming Delphi Developer Days 2011 that will provide a deep insight into current and earlier versions of Delphi. Delphi Developer Days 2011 DelphiDeveloperDays.com Top Delphi experts Marco Cantù and Cary Jensen present their annual Delphi Developer Days tour. This year, they visit four cities in the United States and Europe. Cites and Dates for 2011: DC/Baltimore area, US:            April 11-12, 2011 Houston, Texas, US:          &n ...