Report Sharp-Shooter Express Edition

What's New in Report Sharp-Shooter 5.3 

• New: Table Wizard. The process of the first report creation becomes as simple as ABC. You easily add simple data tables to the reports using Table Wizard.
• New: Support for Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework.
• New: Advanced Script Browser abilities:
• Ability to search and replace text in all scripts of the document.
• Ability to undo/redo for all windows through the script browser.
• Ability to validate scripts before saving.
• Improved error list integrated with the script browser.
• Improved: AdvancedTextBox.
• Fixed: The issue with saving when opening a new document in the designer.
• Fixed: The issue with bookmarks work when exporting to PDF.
• Improved: Designer performance when working with big documents with a lot of objects.
• Fixed: The issue with opening reports which include a script started with a double slash comment.
• Fixed: Issue with cache handling.
• Improved: Pivot Table Wizard.

What's New in Report Sharp-Shooter 5.0.0.0

Ribbon Report Designer Interface

• New: Contextual tabs.
• New: Convenient preview during the selection of property values provides the ability to see the result of changes in the element immediately. Preview will be available for Font, FontSize, TextFill, Angle, Fill, Gallery of Styles, SizeMode, Line, Shadow, Label, BackColor and BarColor.
• New: Quick access toolbar, which includes standard controls like save, undo, redo and so on.
• New: Silverlight 3.0 and Silverlight 4.0 features are available in one installation package of Report Sharp-Shooter.
• New: Automatic addition of the Detail section into DataBand or GroupBand upon insert of the TextBox.
• New: Ability to use hot keys for text formatting: copy, paste, select, zoom and so on.
• Improved: If many elements are overlapped, then when you click the overlapping area repeatedly the element with lower z-index will be selected (after the last element is selected the most top element will be selected again).
• Improved: Drag&drop in the report designer connected with change of the Parent. If you locate the element in the other container (section), the parent will be changed automatically similar to the change of container in the tree.
• Improved: Ability to copy the element during drag&drop. You are able not just drag the element from one position to the other, but copy this element by pressing CTRL.
• Improved: Drag&drop from the data source. Now the element is inserted immediately.
• Fixed: Incorrect right-to-left alignment, including flip images in right-to-left flow.
• Fixed: Issues with message boxes during rendering on the web service.
• Fixed: TextBox overflowed in HTML rendering.
• Fixed: BackSlash line rendering issue in Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight.
• Fixed: StringTrimming issues for ellipsis values.
• Fixed: Minor bugs and shortcomings.

Report Sharp-Shooter is a suite of 100% managed components allowing the creation of both bound and unbound reports, with an unlimited number of master-detail relations, groups, columns and crosses. Report generation concept is very easy and suits to both advanced and novice users: to generate a report template is created and a developer can use one of these three ways to do this:

• Design report template in visual designer;
• Create it dynamically using the wizard
• Create it dynamically in a programmatic way.

Report Sharp-Shooter is available in the following editions:

• Express Edition – intended for the creation of reports for Windows applications and print them. It does not include End-User Designer and export filters.
• Lite Edition - intended to be used in Windows Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer and does not include End-User Designer. It is the ideal solution for those developers whose project does not need to provide a user with the ability to modify report templates.
• Windows Forms Edition - designed for Windows Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer and an End User Designer which allows editing in both report templates and final documents.
• Web Forms Edition - designed for Web Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Web Forms Viewer. If you specialize in Web Forms application development and require a report generator, the Web Edition is the one you need.
• Win + Web Edition - designed for both Windows and Web applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer, the Web Forms Viewer, and the End User Designer which allows the editing of report templates and final documents.
• Professional Edition - designed to be used in both Windows and Web applications, provides the whole products functionality and delivers the full source code in C#.

General product features:

• 100% .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 Compatible
• Compatible with the most popular .NET IDEs: Visual Studio.NET, Borland C# Builder, Delphi.NET, Sharp Develop, etc. Moreover, it works without any IDE. The minimum requirement is .NET Framework installed on the end-user’s machine.
• Supports WinForms.
• XML-based report file format is easy to share over the Internet.
• Scripting is supported for C# and VB.NET, as well as for any language supported by the .NET Framework. No need to learn any additional script language.
• Open plug-in architecture, which means that you can easily add your own functionality by adding your own DLL(s) as plug-in(s). For instance, you can create an export filter for your needs and use it with Report Sharp-Shooter.
• Royalty-free run-time

Work with data sources

• Supports all .NET data sources, including ADO.NET DataSets, DataViews, Collections, Arrays and any classes that implement IEnumerable, IList or IListSource.
• Multiple data sources can be used in a single report.
• Compatible with ADO.NET, supports hierarchical data model with relations.
• Both bound and unbound modes are supported.
• Powerful binding model allows you to bind all controls properties to data fields, systems, and local variables, as well as to custom expressions written in a current script language (C# or VB.NET).

Report design features:

• Report Designer allows the creation and customization of both report templates and rendered documents. These operations can be conducted at design-time as well as at run-time.
• Support for smart tags on Report Sharp-Shooter components allows editing element properties without invoking the property grid.
• Intelligent Report Wizard prevents developers from wasting time and effort during the process of report creation. A few mouse clicks quickly result in a report of any complexity.
• MasterReport concept allows developers to create a single master form with an appearance which adheres to corporate standards, and then use it in further report designs. It allows a user to assign a report template containing all recurring elements once and then apply it to further reports by a single mouse click, paying attention only to the contents of the reports.
• The built-in End User Designer allows end-users to make modifications both in the report template and in the document.
• Converters from Crystal Reports and Active Reports

Report model features:

• Generated reports are stored in the form of objects graphs (using ReportDOM).
• Use the manual build mode to control all aspects of the report generation process (for very complex reports only). You can also combine manual and automatic rendering mechanisms to get a required band sequence.
• Ability to create and use Bar codes and Zip codes. Support for PDF417 2D barcode.
• A built-in charting component allows the visual presentation of data contained in the report.
• A native Pivot Table component allows adding OLAP functionality to your reports.
• Integration with Instrumentation ModelKit allows data presentation in the form of various visual elements such as gauges, dial, odometers, etc.
• Rich visual controls set, including texts, shapes, pictures, bar codes, and zip codes. You can also use any WinForms control as a report element.
• Advancedpageheadersandfooters
• Styles are supported. You can use different style sheets to optimize reports for preview, print, export etc.

Report types:

• Cross Tab Reports
• Parameterized Reports.
• Sub-reports.
• SideBySide reports.
• Hierarchical reports.
• Multicolumn reports.
• Group reports, etc

Report Sharp-Shooter is available in the following editions:

• Express Edition – intended for the creation of reports for Windows applications and print them. It does not include End-User Designer and export filters.
• Lite Edition - intended to be used in Windows Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer and does not include End-User Designer. It is the ideal solution for those developers whose project does not need to provide a user with the ability to modify report templates.
• Windows Forms Edition - designed for Windows Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer and an End User Designer which allows editing in both report templates and final documents.
• Web Forms Edition - designed for Web Forms applications. The delivery package contains the Web Forms Viewer. If you specialize in Web Forms application development and require a report generator, the Web Edition is the one you need.
• Win + Web Edition - designed for both Windows and Web applications. The delivery package contains the Windows Forms Viewer, the Web Forms Viewer, and the End User Designer which allows the editing of report templates and final documents.
• Professional Edition - designed to be used in both Windows and Web applications, provides the whole products functionality and delivers the full source code in C#.