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ActiveReports by Data Dynamics

Generate a wide variety of reports from your application. ActiveReports V2.0 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 V2.0 is now offered in two editions to suit your development needs. Both editions build on ActiveReports 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 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 combines Microsoft Visual basic with advanced ActiveX Designer Component technology to provide the a report designer for Visual Basic developers.

ActiveReports 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 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 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 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 includes all the new advanced capability of the Standard version and also allows you to host the ActiveReports 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 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

PartNumbers: PC-505752-22668 505752-22668 PC-505752-22669 505752-22669 PC-505752-22671 505752-22671 PC-505752-22675 505752-22675 PC-505752-22676 505752-22676 PC-505752-22681 505752-22681 PC-505752-22686 505752-22686 PC-505752-22687 505752-22687 PC-505752-22691 505752-22691

Publisher PartNumbers: AR2P AR2PS AR2PU AR2S DDAR2PS DDAR2SS

PurchaseOptions: ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Standard Edition 1 Developer License , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Standard Edition Full boxed product, only available in USA & Canada , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Standard Edition 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Standard Edition Source Code Escrow Annual Subscription - (An Escrow Agreement will be sent to you for signature - please read Licensing section below) , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Professional Edition 1 Developer License , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Professional Edition Full boxed product, only available in USA & Canada , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Professional Edition 1 Developer License Upgrade from V2.0 Standard Edition , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Professional Edition 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) , ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Professional Edition Source Code Escrow Annual Subscription - (An Escrow Agreement will be sent to you for signature - please read Licensing section below)

Resources: Read the ActiveReports help file, Browse the difference between ActiveReports standard and professional web page, Download the ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 Standard evaluation on to your computer - Displays Evaluation Messages, Download the ActiveReports V2.0 SP5 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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