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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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Enhance Your WinForms Reports with Themes

February 16, 2024
Reporting controls with theming support transform reports into visually appealing documents that reinforce your brand identity.

Theme support in reporting controls allows you to customize the visual appearance of your reports without directly modifying individual elements. It works by applying pre-defined themes or creating custom ones, affecting aspects like fonts, colors, backgrounds, and layout. This simplifies report design, ensures brand consistency, and improves accessibility by adhering to user interface guidelines. Theme support is particularly valuable for generating multiple reports with a cohesive look and feel, catering to different audiences, or complying with specific accessibility standards.

Several WinForms reporting controls offer theme support including:

  • DevExpress Reports (Multi-Platform) (part of DevExpress Reporting) allows you to design cross-platform reports with pre-built themes and custom options for seamless branding.
  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS leverages rich theming features and inheritance to create consistent, branded reports across different outputs.
  • Telerik Reporting lets you apply pre-defined or custom themes to ensure visual consistency and accessibility compliance in your reports.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.Net enables you to create visually unified reports with built-in themes and the ability to define custom themes for specific needs.

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

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