Reports.Ultimate adds VS2010 support

Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate is a comprehensive solution that allows you to render reports in .NET. The product includes a complete set of tools to build reports under WinForms, ASP.NET and WPF environments. Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate includes report designers, which can be run at design time and run time. It also includes viewers for displaying reports. You can use the system to export reports, in a number of different types of formats. One of the basic principles of using Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate is different technologies but common approaches in creating reports. So when you need to migrate applications to new technologies the principles of working with reports remain unchanged.

The following editions are also available:

• Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web
• Stimulsoft Reports.Net
• Stimulsoft Reports.Web
• Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf

Updates in 2010.1

• Visual Studio 2010 support
• WPF - New themes
  In previous versions of Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf only one theme was available. It was the black theme. Now Stimulsoft have added the following new themes: Office 2010 White, Office 2010 Blue, Office 2007 Blue, Office 2007 Silver, Office 2007 Black, Office 2003 Blue, Office 2003 Silver, and Office 2003 Olive Green. New themes are available in the report viewer and in the report designer.
• Web - Watermarks, shadows and borders
  The new version of StiWebViewerFx now supports watermarks in a report. Text watermarks and watermarks as images are supported. In addition, StiWebViewerFx can show shadows of components. And another improvement is support of advanced borders. Now all types of borders are completely supported.
• Report wizard
  The following report wizards are added: Standard Report wizard, Master-Detail wizard, Label wizard, Cross-Tab wizard and Chart wizard.
• Drag'n'Drop support
  In version 2010.1 Stimulsoft have added full support of Drag&Drop operations. They are supported in the report dictionary, report tree, toolbox. Also Drag&Drop operations are supported in the text editor and expression editor, when dragging the elements from the report dictionary on a page, etc.
• Report checking
  The ability to check a report for problems has been added in the product. The report checker does not only inform you about the errors of compilations but provides multiple recommendations, messages, advice, and warnings about fixing the problems. You may immediately fix issues by some of the ways offered. Report checking works both in the report designer and by running the Report Checker utility.
• A new method of working with business objects
  In the new version of the product, Stimulsoft have introduced a new type of item in the data dictionary. It is the Business Objects. Now working with the Business Objects can be done directly, without the performance decreasing and problems with conversion.
• PDF/A compliance
  Now the product completely supports the PDF/A format. PDF/A is a file format for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. It is a subset of Adobe PDF. PDF/A must follow certain rules including following color management guidelines, using embedded fonts for rendering, and making annotation content available to users..
• New primitives
  In the new version of the report generator you will find multiple new primitives. All primitives are available for the Shape component. In addition to updating the Shape component Stimulsoft also updated HorizontalLine and VerticalLine components. New StartCap and EndCap properties are added, they provide an opportunity to change the style of the start and end lines in the report.
• Report parameters
  Variables now have a new Request from User property. If you enable this property, then, when you show a report in the viewer, the report generator will automatically display a special form that is used to output the value of this variable.
• ProcessignDuplicates improved
  Stimulsoft have extended the features of the ProcessingDuplicates property of the text component. Three new values have been added: BasedOnTagMerge, BasedOnTagHide, and BasedOnTagRemoveText. New values are different from previous ones. They use values of the Tag property as the key for processing but not the Text property of the text component. This enhancement provides the ability to specify compound keys, which will be used for components processing.
• Table component and free placement
  In the previous versions of the reporting tool, the Table component was placed as a band. In other words it was always docked to the top of the report page. Stimulsoft have added a new DockableTable property. If you set this property to false, then you may place the Table component anywhere in your report. This feature extends the potential of the Table component.
• New WYSIWYG property of the RichText component
  This has been added to improve the printed results on some operating systems.
• Turkish localization
  Stimulsoft Reports now supports 25 languages.

About Stimulsoft

Stimulsoft specializes in the development of components for the Microsoft.NET Framework. Customer satisfaction is the company's first priority and as such it aims to produce top quality software. Application development is not always easy, but Stimulsoft does its best to help developers to incorporate the most advanced technologies available on the market today into their applications.