ActiveReports.NET 3.5211321 For .NET2.0
Overview of ActiveReports for .NET
ActiveReports has been the NET reporting tool of choice for the world's best applications for over a decade. Key features include unmatched customization, fast performance, super high quality, and multilanguage features — all battle-tested in tens of thousands of applications worldwide. ActiveReports is a powerful .NET reporting tool for Windows Forms and Web form applications. It supports data exports to all popular file formats, including PDF, Excel, RTF, TIFF, and more. ActiveReports features an easy-to-use Visual Studio .NET report designer and a powerful API that’s been a long-time favorite of .NET developers. Because ActiveReports has been extensively sold worldwide for over a decade, its multilanguage support has been proven to work right out of the box. ActiveReports also offers seamless run-time deployment, royalty free.
Key Features of ActiveReports for .NET Easy to Create
The ActiveReports for .NET report designer integrates seamlessly into the Visual Studio .NET development environments. Once the product has been installed on the developer's machine, adding a report to your project is as easy as adding a class or form.
Easy to Deploy
ActiveReports for .NET reports are created within Visual Studio .NET and compiled directly into the executable. Therefore, assemblies can be distributed using XCopy deployment or they can be placed in the global assembly cache (GAC). The object model provides the Reporting Engine as a single, managed, strong named assembly. There are no additional setups on the server or the clients' machine. Since ActiveReports for .NET is fully managed, there are no dependencies on 3rd party applications.
Export to Any Format
ActiveReports for .NET includes filters for exporting to popular formats like Adobe PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, HTML, Text and TIFF in both Windows- and Web-based applications.
Access Import Wizard
ActiveReports for .NET comes with a Microsoft® Access report conversion wizard that makes importing Access reports a breeze. This is a very handy utility for users who have invested a lot of time creating reports within Access databases. Not only will the import help get you up and running with ActiveReports for .NET, but the banded report architecture is very familiar for developers that have used Microsoft® Access' reports.
Built-In Charting Control
A chart control is included with ActiveReports that supports common 2D and 3D chart types and provides advanced charting features as well as native exporting to various image formats.
- Funnel and Pyramid - Shows how the percentage of each data item contributes to the whole.
- Gantt - Used to graph the progress of project tasks.
- Kagi - Used to display supply and demand trends.
- Point and Figure - Used to define pricing trends.
- Renko - Used to keep track of price movement.
- Three Line Break - Use this to illustrate price changes.
- Others - Other standard chart types are included as well including Vertical and Horizontal Bar, Line, Scatter Plot, Pie, and more...
Report Viewer Control
The Windows Viewer control supports report zooming and previewing, multiple tabs for viewing hyperlinks, split- and multi-page views, a Table of Contents pane, thumbnails, text searches, annotations, and toolbar customization.
ASP.NET Reporting Unbeatable Compatibility with 3rd Party Controls
ActiveReports for .NET supports the use of Windows Forms-based 3rd party controls with the report designer. Essentially any control that is able to be rendered on a Windows Form is capable of being rendered on an ActiveReports for .NET report.
Deep Integration to Your Application
Delivering your reports using ActiveReports for .NET gives you unlimited flexibility. Every ActiveReports report is simply a .NET object. When you create a new report inside the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you will notice that Visual Studio creates a new class file (with a .
vb or .cs extension). Upon further inspection, you will notice that the only thing special about this class is that it inherits from ActiveReport.
At this point, you have access to all of the protected members of the report. Treat this object like any other object in .NET and add your own properties, methods, and events to customize it to meet your business needs. After all, it is just another object.
Professional Edition End User Report Designer
ActiveReports for .NET features a royalty-free End-User Report Designer control that allows you to host the report designer in your own applications to provide end users with the ability to create and modify reports.
ASP.NET HTTP Handlers
Taking advantage of ASP.NET's HTTP Handlers, you can display reports without having to write custom code for exporting to popular formats such as HTML and PDF.
Server-side Web Viewer Control 3.0 Features Viewer Annotations
Annotations can be placed on the report to pass notes and special instructions on to users and developers. Consider the situation where you find a typo on a report. Using ActiveReports for .NET 3.0, users are able to annotate directly on the report and share it with their peers. This feature
Code-behind Report Layouts
Leverage the full power of the .NET framework as your reports are just another object. The new report format follows the same Windows Forms model many developers are familiar with, no longer requiring the .rpx layout files from previous versions. RPX files can still be used for use with the end-user designer control or to support backwards compatibility.
Design-Time Preview
Create reports faster than with previous versions as you can see the results of your changes immediately with the new built-in preview capabilities of the ActiveReports designer.
Updated Report Explorer with Parameters and Calculated Fields
The Report Explorer now displays report parameters and calculated fields.
ReportInfo Control
Easily output meta-data about the report into the document. The number of pages, the current page, when it was run, etc. All from a single control that can be dropped onto any report.
VB.NET Report Scripting
ActiveReports for .NET 3.0 now supports the use of
VB.NET as a scripting language.
Tabbed Viewer Control
TOC items and Web pages clicked on from the report surface now can be opened as tabbed pages in the ActiveReports for .NET 3.0 Viewer control.
Zoom In on the Report Designer
The Zoom toolbar item allows developers and end users using the End-User Report Designer to magnify the design surface of the report for more precise placement and viewing of report controls.
Design-Time Data Source Support
.NET data components can be dropped directly onto the design surface of an ActiveReport, resulting in a visual representation of the data component in the new report component tray. This makes it easy to add custom datasets to an ActiveReport at design time.
Enhanced End-User Report Designer Control
The Professional Edition of ActiveReports for .NET 3.0 contains a redesigned End-User Report Designer. The addition of a CommandBar library and Toolbox object makes the creation and customization of the End-User Designer a quick and easy task.
System Requirements for ActiveReports for .NET Design Time - Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005, or Visual Studio 2008
- Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 2003 Server
- Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, or v3.5
Run Time - Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 2003 Server
- Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, or v3.5
For Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0 Users - If you are using Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0, you must use the original version of ActiveReports for .NET, since the second and third versions support only Visual Studio.NET 2003 or Visual Studio.NET 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1 or higher.
Supported Languages - Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
- Microsoft Visual C#