DevExpress Reporting 22.1.3

All Platforms

• Customize the Parameters Panel in the Report Designer - You can now customize the layout of the Parameters Panel within the Report Parameters Editor (inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and the End-User Report Designer, for all supported development platforms). You no longer need to write any code. You can group parameters, change the location of editor labels, set up conditions to display/hide individual parameters, etc.
• Cross-Tab Enhancements - The Cross-Tab report control includes the following new options:
  • Html-inspired Text Formatting.
  • Distinct Count, Median, and Mode Summaries.
  • Show/Hide Rows and Columns Based on a Condition.
  • Support for Optimized Calculation Engine.
• Parameters - Server-Side Filtering for Cascading Parameters - Cascading report parameters now filter associated data source information on the server-side if the 'FilterString' property has been specified. This feature will reduce overall memory usage/allocation. The following data source types support this functionality:
  • SQL Database.
  • MongoDB Instance.
  • Entity Framework.
• Report Design Analyzer Enhancements
  • Turn on the 'DesignAnalyzerOptions.EnableErrorCodeLinks' option to display error codes as links in the End-User Report Designer. Click a link to open the online documentation for details on error codes.
  • To ignore specific errors, add their error codes to the 'DesignAnalyzerOptions.SuppressedErrorCodes' collection.
  • Also added three new options ('ShowErrors', 'ShowWarnings', 'ShowMessages') that enable you to filter issues by a category/type in code. You can display only errors, warnings, messages, or any combination of them.
• Expression Editor - Custom Aggregate Functions - Enhanced the Expression Editor in the End-User Report Designer. It now displays custom aggregate functions registered in your application.

Data Source Enhancements

• Entity Framework Core 6 Support - EFDataSource now supports Entity Framework (EF) Core 6.0 context classes bound to Microsoft SQL Server.
• SQL Data Source
  • Stored Procedures with Multiple Result Sets - You can now bind the SqlDataSource component to a stored procedure that returns multiple data tables. You can also view these tables in the Report Designer Field List.
  • Google BigQuery ODBC Provider Support - The Google BigQuery data access engine now uses the official ODBC driver.
  • MySqlConnector Support - The MySql Database Provider can now use a MIT-licensed ADO.NET data provider for MySQL Server to operate with MySQL-compatible databases. The MySql Database Provider ships with the Data Access Library.
• Federation Data Source - Enhanced Manage Queries Dialog - Integrated the Queries List into the Federation Data Source Manage Queries dialog. You can now manage the data source (create, copy/clone, edit, and delete queries) within a single wizard window.
• MongoDB and JSON DataSource Wizards - Extended the MongoDB data source configuration wizard with the following new options:
  • Select/Unselect Data Fields.
  • Specify Field Display Names.
  • Change Field Type.
• You can now safely edit the JSON Data Source schema without loosing selected fields and field display names.
• The MongoDB and JSON Data Source Wizards analyze the first 100 documents/records to generate a schema. If the data source contains more that 100 documents, the Wizard displays an 'Analyze all documents' button. Click the 'Analyze all documents' button to analyze all documents in the data source and create your schema.

Web Reporting

• Web Report Designer - Data Federation - The Web Report Designer's Data Source Wizard allows you to combine multiple report data sources and define joins or relationships between queries and collections. End-users can now create joins, unions, and query transformations as requirements dictate.
• Material Theme Support - Optimized the layout and refined the structure of CSS styles in the Web Report Designer, Web Document Viewer, and Query Builder components. You can now use these components in Web apps that adhere to Material Design Guidelines.

WinForms Reporting

• Report Designer - Enhanced Search in the Report Explorer & Field Picker Dialogs - The Report Explorer panel (and all panels/popup windows that allow users to select data source fields) includes an improved search bar. When a user searches for a specific element(s), the tree automatically expands down to the element(s) that matches the search criteria.

WinUI Reporting - New features include:

• Async Document Generation.
• Keyboard Navigation.
• Mouse-Wheel Zoom, Zoom Trackbar, Toolbar Commands (zoom modes).
• Drill-Down & Interactive Sorting.
• Text Selection.
• Document Margins.
• Responsive Report Layout.
• Search and Document Map.
• Export Options Dialog.
• Configurable Parameters Panel Layout.
• Status Bar: Indication of Lengthly Operations (document generation, document export) / Ability to Cancel the Operation.