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Break Down Complex Data with Subreports

February 28, 2024
Reduce information overload by implementing subreports, promoting modularity for easier maintenance and updates.

Subreports let you combine smaller reports into one, allowing you to present hierarchical or related data in a structured manner. They effectively function as modular components within a larger report, enhancing data organization and clarity. Subreports are useful for displaying detailed information associated with a main report's record, such as order items within an invoice or the sales history of a specific customer.

Several ASP.NET Core reporting controls offer support for subreports including:

  • DevExpress Reports (Multi-Platform) (part of DevExpress Reporting) empowers you to design and embed interactive subreports into your ASP.NET Core applications.
  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS facilitates the creation of comprehensive reports with rich features, including the ability to integrate drilled-down data through subreports.
  • Telerik Reporting offers a robust reporting solution that allows you to seamlessly nest subreports within your reports, providing a hierarchical view of your data.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.Web enables you to generate web-based reports with dynamic subreports, catering to web application reporting needs.

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

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Seamlessly Integrate Your Brand in Reporting Apps

February 27, 2024
ActiveReports.NET v18 lets you fully customize the appearance of its JS Viewer and Web Designer components using themes.

ActiveReports.NET is a reporting tool that allows developers to design and deliver reports with intuitive, reliable, and user-friendly report designers and controls. Features include the ability to create reports in a variety of formats, such as PDF, Excel, and HTML. ActiveReports.NET is also highly customizable, with an extensive API and advanced feature library.

ActiveReports.NET v18 brings robust theme support to its JS Viewer and Web Designer components, granting you extensive control over the user interface. Choose from a diverse selection of built-in UI themes for instant customization, or exercise fine-grained control by creating your own theme. This allows you to precisely match the components' appearance with your application's unique branding, ensuring a visually cohesive and professional user experience.

To see a full list of what's new in version 18, see our release notes.

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.

For more information, visit our ActiveReports.NET product page.

Add Drill-Through Charts to Your Web Application

February 23, 2024
JavaScript drill-through charts empower users to easily navigate multiple layers of data and hone in on specific data points.

ActiveReportsJS is a reporting tool for web applications that allows developers and report authors to easily design and display reports within their applications. With a wide range of features, such as drill-down, runtime data filtering, and parameter-driven reports, as well as compatibility with popular frameworks, ActiveReportsJS simplifies the process of creating and managing reports.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Technical Engagement Engineer Joel Parks shows you how to utilize ActiveReportsJS to incoporate charts into your JavaScript report, and bind your chart data together through the use of parameterized drill-through navigation, allowing your users to easily traverse between them. Steps include:

  • Creating a report and binding a data source
  • Adding subreport parameters
  • Building line and stacked column charts
  • Setup drill-through navigation between reports
  • Loading the report into a JavaScript application

Read the complete blog now, and start adding drill-through chart functionality to your JavaScript report using ActiveReportsJS.

ActiveReportsJS is licensed on an annual subscription or perpetual basis and is available as a Single Deployment License for non-commercial use, and as a Single Domain License or Unlimited Domain License for commercial and/or SaaS use. See our ActiveReportsJS licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our ActiveReportsJS product page.

Create and Edit Report Layouts within Visual Studio

February 22, 2024
Visual Studio integrated report designers offer seamless reporting solutions for your .NET WinForms projects.

Visual Studio integrated report designers are comprehensive tools integrated into the Visual Studio development environment that enable software developers to design, create, and customize reports seamlessly within their projects. This feature streamlines the report creation process by providing a user-friendly interface for designing layout, formatting data, and integrating data sources directly within Visual Studio. Its benefits include increased productivity through the elimination of the need for external tools, enhanced collaboration among development teams, and improved efficiency in report development workflows, ultimately leading to faster delivery of high-quality reporting solutions in software applications.

Several .NET WinForms reporting controls offer Visual Studio integrated designers, including:

  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS enables report creation in Visual Studio, fostering efficient design, data integration, and collaboration for professional reporting solutions.
  • DevExpress Reports integrates with Visual Studio, providing a versatile and user-friendly environment for creating, designing, and customizing comprehensive reports.
  • Telerik Reporting includes a Visual Studio integrated designer, facilitating the creation and customization of dynamic reports for enhanced data visualization.
  • MindFusion.Reporting for Windows Forms enhances Visual Studio with a powerful integrated designer, simplifying the creation and customization of WinForms reports.

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

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Make Your Reports Accessible by Converting to HTML

February 20, 2024
Exporting reports to the HTML format transforms them into convenient web pages, making them available to anyone with a web browser.

Being able to export to HTML is a valuable feature of a reporting application. Exporting reports to HTML files involves converting data visualizations and analytical summaries from a native format into web-friendly HTML pages. This allows for wider accessibility, sharing, and potentially embedding reports within websites. Static reports are transformed into interactive documents easily viewable on any device with a web browser. This format is ideal for sharing reports with collaborators, posting them online, or simply ensuring they remain accessible even if the original software becomes unavailable.

These Vue.js report components allow you to export reports to HTML files:

  • DevExpress Reporting offers seamless export to HTML, preserving report layout, formatting, and interactivity for web distribution.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.JS enables efficient HTML export, ensuring report fidelity and cross-browser compatibility for web deployment.
  • ActiveReportsJS provides robust HTML export capabilities, faithfully reproducing reports in web environments with interactive features intact.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Vue.js Reporting components.

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