 What is Stimulsoft Reports.Net?
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is a .NET based report generator which helps you create flexible and feature rich reports. Stimulsoft Reports.Net is delivered with source codes. All reports are created in report designer with handy and user-friendly interface. You can use the report designer both in design time and in runtime. No royalties for using the report designer in runtime are required. Using Stimulsoft Reports.Net you can create reports on the bases of the variety of data sources. Created reports can be used both in Windows Forms and in ASP.Net. Rendered report can be exported to: PDF, XPS, XML, HTML, Word, Excel, RTF, TXT, CSV, EMF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. Stimulsoft Reports.Net is runtime royalty-free.
What can we say about our report engine?
When development of Stimulsoft Reports.Net was started we tried to make the report engine maximally powerful and flexible. But real power and flexibility our report engine has acquired after we started receive and realize requests, suggestions and criticisms of our customers. Thanks to our customers the report generator has powerful and rich functionality. For report creation plenty of components such as simple text components and compound special components (Chart, Cross-Tab, Container and others) are available. Using Stimulsoft Reports.Net, many difficult in realization earlier tasks are getting available and understandable.
How does our report engine work with data?
Any report requires data for its work. What does the Stimulsoft Reports.Net offer for you? Our report engine supports all types of ADO.Net. Need get data directly from data server? We support more than 10 types of data servers: MS SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, Firebird and etc. Do you store data in XML? Report engine can get data from XML files too. Do you need to use business objects? Stimulsoft Reports.Net can help you. You can use them as well as other data sources. There is no need for you to rack your brains over the question: how to prepare data for report rendering. Stimulsoft Reports.Net will do this work for you. Sorting, grouping, filtration, joining – all these actions can be done with your data before report rendering.
What about the reports designer?
We think that it is important for the report designer to be quick and handy, because time amount spent for report creation depends on it. That is why we make it more user-friendly. In our report designer whole report is visually separated into pages in the report template. This allows you to see how elements will be placed on a page of a report. Our designer fully supports drag&drop. Full support of this technology allows you to speed up report creation. We have added plenty of wizards and editors to make changes of properties as easy as possible. Besides, in cooperation with our partners we have fully translated the designer interface into 18 languages. This makes our customers’ work easier. Also, to make the clients’ work faster, special commands to create reports are available. We do not stop on what we reached and keep on making our report editor to be perfect!
What we prepare for work with reports?
Work with ready reports is no less important than preparing a template for this report. We maximally improved this part of our product. You can view the report both in Win Forms and in Web Forms. Do you want to save rendered report into other format? It is also not a problem. Stimulsoft Reports.Net can save rendered reports into more than 20 file formats. Besides, you can save reports into the special internal format for following viewing. Also our report generator offers you unique mode of editing of a rendered report directly in the Preview Window. If mode is not enough, you may use full power of the report designer. We had hard work to supply opportune navigation over a report. Hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails are available for you.
Report creation
Handy separation the report template into pages
Handy visual separation of the report template into pages is available in Stimulsoft Reports.Net. You visually put all data which you want to output on a page. You can output both bound data and independent data. Such separation allows you to make reports creation faster and allows you to increase visual perception of the report.
Data sorting, grouping, filtration with report engine
You can output both one list of data and many independent lists. Data can be grouped, sorted, filtered, and logically bound. All this can be done with report generator facilities. And there are no limitations.
Unlimited hierarchical reports
Using Stimulsoft Reports.Net there are no problems with Master-Detail reports creation. Therefore, there is no need to use sub-reports. You may create such reports quickly and visually. Number of nesting levels of Master-Detail reports is unlimited.
Unlimited multicolumn reports
There is no difficulty to create reports with columns. Three modes of columns output are available. Columns can be output both on a page and on band. Modes of columns output can be combined and applied concurrently. Number of columns in reports is unlimited.
Reports with grouping
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is able to group data with use of both simple and complicated conditions. It is accepted multiple nesting of one group into another. The number of groupings in one report is unlimited.
Charts
Comprehensive set of charts designed to increase graphical impact of reports is available in Stimulsoft Reports.Net. The following types of charts are supported: Clustered Column, ClusteredBar, Area, Pie, Doughnut, Line, Spline, Spline Area, Stacked Bar, Stacked Column, Stacked Area, Stacked Line, Stacked Spline, Stacked Spline Area, Full-Stacked Column, Full-Stacked Bar, Full-Stacked Area, Full-Stacked Line, Full-Stacked Spline, Full-Stacked Spline Area, Gantt chart, Scatter chart, Scatter with Lines chart, Scatter with Splines chart. The best chart style is based upon your data. Charts are automatically updated when new variables are added.
Unique ability - containers
Containers in Stimulsoft Reports.Net are the unique ability of our product. Using containers the report creation like Side by Side is getting a deal of some minutes. The number of containers in the report is unlimited.
Unique ability - segmented pages
Unique ability to create reports with use of some pages by the width or height, simplicity of giving information for the user is available in Stimulsoft Reports.Net.
Simple way to cross reports
Complete set of tools for rendering both simple and compound cross-reports.
Dialog forms for parameters of the report output
Unique decision is the ability to create dialog forms in the report for parameters input. For forms creation many controls are given.
Powerful system of calculation of totals
You can calculate total of a report, group, column, page, with growing total, with condition. Following aggregate functions are available: Sum, Count, Avg, Max, Min, First, Last and etc. All you need to do for calculation of totals is to write the following expression in the text component: {Count()}. And it is not necessary to put this component on the Footer bands. Totals can be output in any part of a report. And all this is without writing any code.
Work with Data
ADO.Net types of data support
Full support of all ADO.NET types of data: DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataRelation. All data are output considering the hierarchy of data in the DataSet. All data are typified.
Business objects support
Business objects are fully supported: IList, IEnumerable, ITypedList, classes, enumeration etc. Also links between them are supported too.
Access to data directly from a report
This means the ability to link with data without using ADO.Net. Data receiving from MS SQL, Oracle, ODBC, OleDB, FirebirdSQL, PostgeSQL is supported. You can make compound SQL queries to databases, with use of SQL parameters etc.
Access to data in XML
Data receiving from XML files. You can get data for the report directly from XML files.
Compound user data support
The special component for connection with compound user data. It allows to output compound data in reports.
Data processing with report engine
Stimulsoft Reports.Net allows you to use hierarchically bound data from the DataSet. In addition, you can sort data, and sorting is possible with use of DataRelations. When output, data filtration is available. Other kinds of data processing are available too.
Report Designer
The report designer is available in runtime
The report designer is available in runtime and has no limitations. You can build-in the ability to edit reports in your program. You can do this without difficulties.
User-friendly interface
The report designer has a professional and usable interface. Docking windows, toolbars, hotkeys are used etc.
Easy setup for different tasks
You can setup the view of the report designer. It is possible to enable or disable any elements of the menu, any button on toolbars, any docking window and many other elements. This allows you to simplify usage of the Designer by the end-user.
Text editing on a page
It is very convenient to edit the text directly on a page without additional windows calling or changing properties in the PropertyGrid.
Preview in report designer
Clicking the special bookmark in the report designer you can see the result of your report creation.
Zoom
The report designer allows you to edit reports in any zoom. This gives you ability to view the page on the whole and display any part of the report page.
Full localization
The report designer is fully translated into many languages. The number of languages is permanently increasing.
Work with Rendered Reports
Handy window of preview
In Stimulsoft Reports.Net you can display a whole page or a page that fits by the width or two pages side by side. Also Stimulsoft Reports.Net has the ability to display multiple pages. Any zoom can be used for displaying pages of your report. The special control of report preview is available.
Reports in Web
Stimulsoft Reports.Net offers a full set of tools for working with reports in ASP.Net. The pack includes the web control of report output on the page of ASP.Net.
Saving and loading of rendered report
The rendered report can be saved both from the window of preview and from the code. The report is saved in a file or stream in the XML format. Then, saved report can be loaded both from the window of preview and from the code.
Reports export to various formats
You can export created reports to various formats. The following formats are available: PDF, XPS, RTF, HTML, Excel, Word, TXT, XML, EMF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, Tiff and etc.
Report editing in the window of preview
Stimulsoft Reports.Net has a unique ability to edit created reports in the window of preview. All you need to do is to mark the component as available for editing. Moreover, you can run the Designer in the window of preview and edit any page of a report.
Simple report navigation
For quick report navigation you can use the thumbnails. Besides, there is a Tree of Bookmarks in the report generator. If you press the tree node then all necessary information, selected with red color, will be displayed in the window of preview.
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