Released: Jan 25, 2024

Updates in 29.001

Features

New Features

• .NET
  • The OdbcDataProvider now supports a custom ParameterMarkerFormat. Use it to override or correct the format available from the driver's DatabaseInformationSchema.
  • The syntax for data source parameters now supports passing "allowblank" in order to allow the resulting report parameter's value to be empty.
  • Special "Signed" NuGet packages with the signed List & Label assemblies are now available.
• Export
  • XHTML-Export: Images in Crosstab Headers are now supported.
• Other...

Released: Oct 19, 2023

Updates in 29

Features

• Report Designer
  • Enhanced drag & drop support in the designer: A frequently expressed wish has finally been realized: 1:n relationships are displayed directly in the variables/fields area of the designer now, which makes the data structure much more intuitive to grasp. If you use a data provider, creating tables is a breeze now with 1:n relationships using drag and drop.
  • Adjacent crosstabs: Introduces multidimensional data analysis with adjacent crosstabs. Several completely...

Released: Jun 16, 2023

Updates in 28.003

Features

• .NET
  • All available NuGet packages now have a special Enterprise package and ID to ensure that the packages are all coming from one package source in case more than one source is defined, e.g. nuget.org and combit's own NuGet server. Please note that existing Enterprise packages have to be switched to the new packages once in every project.
  • Added support for calling the Reporting Wizard in C# web applications or .NET 6/.NET 7 applications.
  • Updated MongoDB driver to 2.19.1. (This...

Released: Feb 1, 2023

Updates in 28.001

Features

• Web Components
  • Web Report Designer: Added support for export options.
  • Web Report Designer: Alpha Feature: Bar Charts are now supported.
  • Web Report Viewer: The setter of WebReportViewerSessionOptions.ReportParameterDateFormatCulture will now throw an ArgumentNullException or CultureNotFoundException if no value was supplied or the set culture is invalid.
• .NET
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Integration: The Reporting Wizard and the Package can now also be called within a C# WPF application.
  • The...

Released: Oct 21, 2022

Updates in 28

Features

Web and Cloud
Web Report Designer with New Design Options.

• Designer objects: Take advantage of new objects for your report templates such as gauges, data graphics, checkboxes and PDF files.
• Charts: Create pie charts intuitively with just a few clicks. Further chart types will be added successively.
• Repository: Add structure and clarity to the content of your repository. Folder structures are supported automatically without the need for changes to existing implementations.
• Table editor...

Released: Aug 4, 2022

Updates in 27.004

Features

• New Features
  • Components
    • VCL: Added support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 11.1 (BDE and FireDAC).
  • Print
    • As "MS Sans Serif" is a raster font and causes problems with the PDF export, the font is now replaced in the RTF stream with "Microsoft Sans Serif", looking the same, but scaling correctly.
• Improvements
  • .NET
    • Improved schema detection and field type handling for SchemaAwareJsonDataProvider.
  • Designer
    • Non-existent 'project includes' used to show up using empty entries in the configuration...

Released: May 5, 2022

Updates in 27.003

Features

• New Features
  • Components
    • Added new “Printerless” property to OCX control.
  • Print
    • Added a new LL_OPTION_RTF_SHARE_OBJECTS_THRESHOLD option which limits the number of RTF controls to be used exclusively. Once the number of RTF objects surpasses this value, shared RTF objects are used to limit resources needed.
  • Web Components
    • Web Report Designer
      • Added a new table editor to easily create and modify tables in report containers. You can drag and drop fields to create and move them and adjust...

Released: Feb 15, 2022

Updates in 27.002

Features

• New Features
  • .NET
    • Report Wizard now supports additional file-based providers, the following formats can be used: json, csv, xls, xlsx, txt and xml.
    • DOM bar chart, Z-axes can now be edited / added.
  • Components
    • Alaska Xbase++ dsListLabel, support of SQLExpress, an add-on library for native ODBC integration.
    • VCL FireDAC now supports the following new classes, TLlDesignerObject27, TLDesignerFunction27, TlDesignerAction27 and TLlExprEvaluator.
  • Designer
    • The drag & drop interface for charts...

Released: Oct 21, 2021

Updates in 27.000

Features

New Features*

• Support for Microsoft Windows 11, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, Microsoft .NET 6.
• New browser-based designer ("Web Report Designer"). The .NET 4.0 C# MVC web reporting sample is adapted so that both designers (client- and browser-based) can be used in parallel.
• New Web Report Viewer, this offers the same functionality as the previous HTML5 viewer, but is based on new technology and - like the Designer - is available as a WebComponent.
• Support for systems without printer...

Released: Aug 3, 2021

Updates in 26 Service Pack 26.004

Features

New Features

.NET

• DrawObjectEventArgs has a new member “ObjFinished”, possibility to force a page break e.g. in the text object.

VCL

• Convenient possibility to set export options directly in the List & Label instance.
• Support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4.2 (BDE & FireDAC).

Report Server (Enterprise Edition only)

• Multiple instances of the Report Server are now supported by manually adding AppPools with specific InstanceIdentifier in privateSettings.config.
• Added...