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Customize Reports Faster with Style Editor

May 21, 2025
FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 adds a centralized styling tool to reduce repetition and maintain consistent formatting across report elements.

FastReport Online Designer is a cross platform visual report designer for FastReport .NET that enables users to create, edit and view reports on any device running Android, iOS or Windows through a modern web browser on computers, tablets, smartphones, game consoles or TV sets. Common use cases include remote collaboration on operational dashboards, embedding interactive reporting in web applications and empowering business users to customize and share up to date analyses without installing additional software.

FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 introduces a new Style Editor that enables users to define and manage report styles in one place. By allowing customization of fill colors, fonts, borders, and more, the feature removes the need for repetitive manual formatting. Users can now create a single style and apply it across multiple components, ensuring visual consistency and reducing formatting time.

To see a full list of what's new in v2025.2, see our release notes.

FastReport Online Designer is available as a license option in the FastReport .NET Components Packages. It is included in FastReport Ultimate .NET and FastReport Web .NET. See our FastReport Online Designer licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our FastReport Online Designer product page.

Integrate Rich Calendaring with Minimal Code

May 20, 2025
Offer flexible views, color-coded events, and drag-and-drop rescheduling so users can take full control of their calendar.

Calendars are specialized components that allow developers to present and manage dates and events directly within their applications. They provide ready-made interfaces for selecting dates and displaying scheduled items while synchronizing with external services such as Microsoft 365 and Google Calendar. Common use cases include online booking systems for reserving resources, shift planning tools for staff schedules, and customer-facing appointment portals in industries like healthcare or personal services. By leveraging these calendar components, teams deliver polished, reliable scheduling experiences with minimal effort.

Several .NET Winforms UI suites offer a calendar component including:

  • MindFusion.WinForms Pack lets you embed interactive calendar controls with customizable views, recurrence rules, and event management for scheduling applications.
  • Bunifu UI WinForms allows you to add sleek calendar widgets featuring animations, themes, date-pickers, and range selection for improved scheduling.
  • Telerik UI for WinForms facilitates calendar controls with multiple view modes, data binding, localization, and event highlighting for enterprise scheduling.
  • DevExpress WinForms lets you integrate feature-rich calendar components with customizable appointment templates, resource grouping, and flexible navigation views.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET Winforms UI suites comparison.

Compare .NET Winforms UI Suites

Bunifu Technologies Adds .NET 9 Support

May 19, 2025
The Bunifu product range can now be used to integrate modern user interface and charting components in the Microsoft .NET 9.0 ecosystem.

Bunifu Technologies is a leading provider of UI/UX components, design tools and data visualization components for developers building WinForms applications, and for integrating charting functionality. The Bunifu Ultimate Bundle offers a comprehensive suite of premium grids, charts, forms, and navigation components that make it easy to craft visually stunning, user-centric interfaces. By leveraging Bunifu’s expertise, developers can significantly improve the look and feel of their applications while reducing development time, ultimately delivering exceptional user experiences.

With support for Microsoft .NET 9, developers can use Bunifu UI WinForms and BuniCharts to create high quality applications that combine modern user interface elements with high-performance data visualization. This compatibility aligns these components with the latest advancements in the .NET ecosystem, allowing developers to deliver more modern, stable, and future-proof applications without compromising on design or performance.

Bunifu products are licensed per developer and are available in four plans, three of which are annual licenses while the other is perpetual. All plans come with free version updates and Premium support for the active license period. See our Bunifu Ultimate Bundle licensing page for full details.

For more information, see the following product pages:

Accelerate Web Development with Blazor UI Controls

May 19, 2025
Blazor UI suites offer high-performance components, such as grids or charts, for building scalable, consistent, and maintainable applications.

UI controls designed for use with Microsoft's Blazor framework, support full-stack development in C# and .NET, simplifying the creation of modern web applications. These controls are typically bundled into UI suites, providing developers with pre-built, customizable elements that improve the creation of rich, interactive web interfaces without needing JavaScript. By leveraging WebAssembly or server-side rendering, Blazor UI suites allow for an easy developer experience, consistent performance, and strong integration with existing .NET libraries and tooling.

Common controls include:

  • Barcode components allow users to generate and display various barcode formats for product labeling and scanning workflows.
  • Calendar components provide interactive date selection and scheduling capabilities, often with multi-view and appointment features.
  • Chart controls enable dynamic data visualization, supporting a wide range of chart types such as line, bar, pie, and financial indicators.
  • Data Editors offer form inputs like text boxes, checkboxes, and dropdowns with built-in validation and styling options.
  • Data Grid components deliver powerful tabular data representation, featuring sorting, filtering, grouping, and virtual scrolling for handling large datasets efficiently.
  • Gantt controls support project management scenarios with timeline views, task dependencies, and resource tracking.
  • Map components integrate geographic data display, often layered with markers, routes, and region highlights.
  • Menus facilitate intuitive navigation structures, including horizontal, vertical, and context-sensitive options.
  • Toolbars provide accessible command sets, commonly used for actions like formatting, exporting, or interacting with other UI components.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Blazor UI suites comparison.

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Create Calculated Fields in a C# .NET RDL Report

May 16, 2025
Use ActiveReports.NET to create new values based on existing data, enabling on-the-fly calculations.

ActiveReports.NET helps you deliver beautiful reports with intuitive Visual Studio integrated report designers and rich controls. It provides code-based cross-platform reporting, easy-to-use designers, and a flexible API, enabling you to design and deliver powerful reports with intuitive, reliable, and user-friendly report designers and controls.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Product Manager Alec Gall shows you how to add a calculated field to your report using the ActiveReports.NET Web Designer. Steps include:

  • Opening the Data Tab
  • Editing the Data Set
  • Adding a Calculated Field
  • Defining your Calculation
  • Using the Field in your Report

Read the complete blog to learn this simple but powerful method to extend your data inside ActiveReports.NET.

ActiveReports.NET is licensed per developer and is available with or without a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our ActiveReports.NET licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ActiveReports.NET product page.