ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM - Summary

by ComponentOne - Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

On July 1, 2012, ComponentOne and GrapeCity joined forces, creating ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity.
The US GrapeCity PowerTools division was renamed to ComponentOne.

Summary

ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM by ComponentOne

URLs: activereports, componentone

Generate a wide variety of reports from your application. ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM is fully integrated into the Visual Basic programming environment and allows you to create rich reports without cryptic scripts or work-arounds. Features robust design-time environment including report wizard, support for DAO, ADO, and OLE DB, support for VB events, and more. Reports are compiled into your VB application for increased runtime performance.

ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM V2.0 is now offered in two editions to suit your development needs. Both editions build on ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM 1.0 and add many new features and enhancements. The Standard Edition now supports distributable XML report layouts, ActiveScripting (VB/Script/JScript) events and expressions and XML data sources. The Professional Edition adds a royalty-free customizable end-user report designer control. Other new features include: Access Reports and Crystal Reports import wizards, ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM V1.0 upsizer, Barcode Control, Report bookmark and internet hyperlinks, Controls Style property editor based on standard Cascading Sytlesheets (CSS) syntax, and an improved ActiveX Viewer

ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM combines Microsoft Visual basic with advanced ActiveX Designer Component technology to provide the a report designer for Visual Basic developers.

ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM is fully integrated in the Visual Basic programming environment. It feels and works like VB. No more cryptic scripts or work arounds. It provides a fully open architecture that lets you use VB code, ActiveX, and OLE Objects in your reports so you can handle the toughest of reports without limits.

ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM includes a Report Wizard that steps you through creating simple reports without writing any code. The wizard is integrated into the Visual Basic environment as an add-in module.

ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM is based on the Active Designer specification, which allows a component to be integrated into the hosting design environment, and allows it to make full use of the environment's services.

The designer is a fully compliant ActiveX control and object host. You can insert any control or OLE object, such as graphs and documents, into your reports. OLE objects can be bound to BLOB fields in your database.

The significant differences between the two versions are the ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM Professional version includes a Web Caching Service, a Property Listbox Control and a customizable royalty free End User Report Designer Control.

Difference between Professional and Standard:

The professional version of ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM includes all the new advanced capability of the Standard version and also allows you to host the ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM designer inside your application to provide royalty-free end-user report editing capabilities. It even includes the new WebCache service to manage report output on web servers running Microsoft Internet Information Server. The caching service is a COM component that runs as a service on the web server and caches the report's output.

Design Environment

Easy to use Office-like designer environment

New! Access Reports import wizard

New! Crystal Reports import wizard

New! VBScript and JScript events and expressions and a built-in syntax-highlighting script editor

New! ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM 1.0 upsizer. Includes data bound text, checkbox, image, OLE objects, rich text and subreports ActiveX control host. Use 3rd party controls or your own custom controls in your reports

New! Barcode Control New! Report bookmark and internet hyperlinks

New! Controls Style property editor based on standard CSS syntax Pro! Royalty-free end-user designer control

Data Access

Supports DAO, RDO, ADO

New! Support for XML data sources and XPath, XSL expressions

Supports unbound data from arrays, collections, and other data providers

Binds to recordsets and resultsets for maximum flexibility and connection efficiency

Architecture

Full runtime access to objects, data sources and binding, ability to add controls/sections dynamically at runtime to modify the report behavior

Full control over printer jobs, properties and ouput devices

Hosts ActiveX components and OLE objects

Deployment

Reports can be compiled for maximum security and speed

New! Report layouts can be distributed as XML based reort layout (RPX files) (application host independent)

Enhanced! Java viewer based on JDK 1.3 with printing support

New! TIFF export in addition to Text, RTF, Excel, PDF and HTML export filters

Enhanced! PDF export supports table of contents bookmarks and embedded fonts

ActiveX Viewer

New! Multipage thumbnails

New! Split Views

New! Ruler

New! Text Search

Generate a wide variety of reports from your application.

Pricing: ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX / COM Standard Edition (V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314)) 1 Developer License, ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX / COM Standard Edition (V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314)) Source Code Escrow Annual Subscription - (An Escrow Agreement will be sent to you for signature - please read Licensing section below), ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX / COM Professional Edition (V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314)) 1 Developer License, ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX / COM Professional Edition (V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314)) Source Code Escrow Annual Subscription - (An Escrow Agreement will be sent to you for signature - please read Licensing section below), ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX / COM Professional Edition - Upgrade from Standard (V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314)) 1 Developer License Upgrade from V2.0 Standard Edition

Evals & Downloads: Read the ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM help file, Browse the difference between ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM standard and professional web page, Download the ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314) Standard evaluation on to your computer - Displays Evaluation Messages, Download the ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM V2.0 SP5 (Build 2.5.0.1314) Professional evaluation on to your computer - Displays Evaluation Messages

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit, Compaq Alpha (DEC)

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX OCX, ActiveX DLL

Built Using: ActiveX Framework

General: Internet Enhanced, Includes Digital Signature, Marked as Safe for Scripting, Marked as Safe for Initialization, OCX96 Compatible, Supports Component Categories, Supports Apartment Model Threading, Microsoft Transaction Server Compatible (MTS)

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

Product Class: Business Components

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Reporting Reports Report

Database DB Reporting Report reports

Part numbers: PC-532844-521514 532844-521514 PC-532844-521526 532844-521526 PC-532844-521532 532844-521532 PC-532844-521550 532844-521550 PC-532844-521538 532844-521538

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