Released: Jan 2, 2013

ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM 中的更新

Enhanced ActiveReports 2.0 Viewer Control

The ActiveReports 2.0 viewer control now has several advanced features. Users can preview multiple pages simultaneously, utilize the new text search feature to search through a report for a specified text string, and report pages can now be copied to the clipboard and pasted in another document. The viewer control also has enhanced IntelliMouse support, a splitter control, and the ability to add custom icons.

Expanded Toolbar in the Designer

The designer's toolbar has several new options. The additions include a page setup menu for modifying page settings, printer settings and style layouts during design time. Menus now include options to save and load reports from RPX files (ActiveReports' custom XML file format), a style drop down box for applying global and specialized styles, and several new controls.

New PageSettings Collection and Page Setup Designer

ActiveReports 2.0 now uses a page settings collection that allows each page to be easily modified.The PageSettings collection contains properties for setting margins, printer orientation, collation, duplex printing, and page sizes. The page setup dialogs allow page and printer settings to be modified at design time rather than requiring the changes to be made at run time. With the added support for mirror margins and gutters, ActiveReports 2.0 makes publishing easy.

Note:PageBottomMargin, PageTopMargin, PageLeftMargin, PageRightMargin are no longer used.

New XML Features

New XML enhancements allow reports to be loaded and saved at design time and run time. Also, the addition of an XML data control allows easy access to XML database structures.

New Hyperlink Capabilities

ActiveReports 2.0 adds hyperlink events to the report and viewer control, providing hyperlinking toURLs, TOC entries, and other reports.

Drill-Down Capability

With the addition of the new hyperlink event, users can set up hyperlinks to other ActiveReports aswell as URLs. This allows ActiveReports to emulate drill-down reporting.A typical scenario would be for users to click on a parent record in one report and have another report displayed containing all of the child records.

Enhanced Exporting Capabilities

The export filters now support hyperlinks and the ability to save a report into a byte array rather than to disk. The PDF export has been updated to support font embedding and international character set support. The PDF export allows for password protection and compression during saving as well asTOC exporting.