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Add Location Insights to Your Reports

June 23, 2025

Maps in reports enhance visual clarity with engaging visuals that reveal geographic patterns and support more informed decision-making.

Maps in reports are visual tools that display geographic data, allowing users to see where activities, trends, or values occur across specific regions. By translating complex location-based information into clear and intuitive visuals, maps enhance understanding, highlight spatial patterns, and reveal insights that might be missed in tables or charts. This added layer of geographic context supports more informed decision-making and more compelling data storytelling. Common use cases include tracking regional sales performance, mapping customer distribution, analyzing service coverage, and presenting market expansion opportunities. Whether static or interactive, maps make reports more engaging and impactful for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Several .NET reporting controls offer maps, including:

Stimulsoft Reports.Web lets you integrate interactive maps into reports for visualizing geographic data with dynamic drill-down and region-specific detail.
FastReport .NET allows you to embed detailed maps in reports, helping users analyze spatial data and identify regional trends at a glance.
Telerik Reporting enables dynamic map integration to visually present geospatial insights, enhancing clarity and context for data across different geographic areas.
ActiveReports.NET facilitates the use of layered map visuals within reports to display location-based data and reveal meaningful geographic patterns efficiently.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of .NET reporting controls.

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View Reports Directly in WinUI Apps

June 23, 2025

ComponentOne Studio WinUI 2025 v1 allows you to display FlexReports and SQL Server reports natively in your Windows 11 desktop apps.

ComponentOne WinUI and MAUI Edition is a comprehensive suite of UI components designed for cross-platform .NET development, supporting WinUI, MAUI, UWP, and Xamarin with a single license. It empowers developers to create modern and high-performance applications for business and enterprise use. With versatile controls and seamless integration, the suite simplifies the development process, enhances productivity, and ensures compatibility with the latest .NET platforms, making it an essential tool for delivering exceptional user experiences.

The ComponentOne Studio WinUI & MAUI Edition 2025 v1 update introduces support for FlexViewer and FlexReport in WinUI, enabling developers to seamlessly embed advanced reporting functionality directly into their Windows 11 (WinUI 3.0) applications. With this update, developers can now display FlexReports, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports, and PDF documents within a single viewer control, improving document handling and enhancing the end-user experience. FlexReport’s support for .NET Standard further improves cross-platform compatibility, allowing for consistent report generation and rendering across different .NET environments. This release simplifies the development of data-driven desktop applications by providing a reliable and fully integrated reporting solution built specifically for modern Windows UI frameworks.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 v1, see our release notes.

ComponentOne Studio WinUI and MAUI is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis and includes a 12 month subscription. See our ComponentOne Studio WinUI and MAUI licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ComponentOne Studio WinUI and MAUI product page.

Simplify GraphQL Integration with a Guided Wizard

June 19, 2025

Telerik Reporting and Report Server 2025 Q2 adds a new GraphQL DataSource Wizard, enabling intuitive connection to GraphQL APIs.

Telerik Reporting and Telerik Report Server deliver a complete solution for creating, managing, and distributing reports across .NET applications. Telerik Reporting is a lightweight, embedded reporting tool for .NET web and desktop apps. It lets developers and users easily design, customize, and export interactive, reusable reports. It supports multiple platforms, including ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MVC, AJAX, HTML5/JS, Angular, WPF, WinForms, and WinUI. Telerik Report Server is a web-based, server-side solution for centralized report management. Built on Telerik Reporting, it offers scheduling, delivery, user management, and web-based access. It can be used standalone or integrated into apps built with Blazor, Angular, or Windows Forms.

The Telerik Reporting and Telerik Report Server 2025 Q2 update introduces a new GraphQL DataSource Wizard in the Web Report Designer that simplifies the process of connecting to GraphQL APIs. This enhancement improves data integration by guiding developers through a clear, step-by-step configuration process, eliminating the need for manual setup or in-depth knowledge of GraphQL syntax. It enables faster data connectivity and report creation directly within the browser-based design environment, improving overall efficiency and reducing development time when working with GraphQL data sources.

To see a full list of what's new, see our release notes for Telerik Reporting and Telerik Report Server 2025 Q2.

Telerik Reporting is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. Telerik Report Server is available as a perpetual license and is licensed per domain. Each domain license contains 15 Client Access Licenses and 1 year support and maintenance. See our licensing pages for Telerik Reporting and Telerik Report Server for full details.

Telerik Reporting and Telerik Report Server are available individually or as part of Telerik DevCraft Ultimate.

Connect Reports Directly To JSON Data

June 18, 2025

Leverage JavaScript reporting components to design, view and export modern web-based reports populated with data from JSON sources.

JSON data connectivity in reporting components provides the ability to use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data as a primary source for building and generating reports. This feature allows developers and analysts to connect directly to structured JSON data, whether from local files or web APIs, and incorporate it into report designs without the need for complex data transformation or intermediary storage. As JSON has become a widely adopted format for data exchange in modern applications, enabling direct connectivity simplifies the reporting process and ensures that reports can easily reflect up-to-date information from diverse and distributed sources.

Several JavaScript reporting components allow you to use JSON as a data source, including:

DevExpress Reporting offers flexible data binding options for complex reporting scenarios in JavaScript and enables you to connect to a variety of data sources, including JSON.
ActiveReportsJS by MESCIUS allows you to load and visualize structured JSON data, supporting modern web applications with interactive, real-time reporting.
Stimulsoft Reports.JS is a reporting solution for JavaScript that supports JSON data binding and enables browser-based report design with dynamic, data-driven content.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of JavaScript reporting components.

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Retrieve and Present Data from Various Sources

June 9, 2025

Built-in support for varied data sources, such as MongoDB, XML, JSON or Excel, makes it easy to bind and visualize live information in your reports.

Data connectivity is a foundational aspect of modern reporting components, enabling applications to retrieve and present data from a wide variety of sources. Whether integrating with relational databases, cloud services, or flat files, effective data connectivity ensures that reports reflect current, accurate information. Reporting components are designed to abstract the complexity of accessing these data sources, providing developers with flexible APIs and tools to bind data into visualizations and formatted reports.

Common features include:

Entity Framework ORM integration simplifies data access by enabling reporting on strongly-typed entities directly from the application's data model.
Excel / CSV support is essential for importing user-generated data or integrating with business workflows where spreadsheets are common.
IEnumerable provides broader compatibility with LINQ and deferred execution, enabling more dynamic and efficient data querying.
IList support allows reporting tools to bind directly to .NET collections, making it easy to create reports from in-memory objects.
JSON data binding supports modern web APIs and microservices, allowing developers to build reports from real-time or external data feeds formatted in a lightweight, widely-used structure.
MongoDB integration enables reporting over NoSQL data structures, particularly useful for applications relying on flexible, document-oriented databases.
OLEDB connectivity facilitates access to legacy systems and a wide range of data providers through a standardized interface.
XML data sources are often used for structured data interchange and provide a versatile method for both hierarchical and flat data binding.