2009/09/21
Stimulsoft Reports. New versions of reporting tools for .NET, Web, and WPF
Stimulsoft Company, a leading manufacturer of software for data processing and analysis, announces the release of version 2009.2 for products Stimulsoft Reports.Net, Stimulsoft Reports.Web, Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web, Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf. As one can see from product names, Stimulsoft Reports.Net is used to generate reports from various data sources and can be used in Windows Forms and in ASP.NET, Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the reporting tool for creating reports in Web, Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf is the best tool for creating applications on the base of Windows Presentation Foundation technology, Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is the reports designer for Web. In general, Stimulsoft Reports is the line of reporting tools which can be used for rendering reports on different platforms. Reports are fully compatible with all Stimulsoft reporting tools. In other words, if you have created a report in Stimulsoft Reports.Net, then it can be opened and edited in both Stimulsoft Reports.Web and Stimulsoft Reports .WPF.
Do you think that there are reports which cannot be created? There is nothing impossible with Stimulsoft Reports. Great numbers of enhancements in products make them simpler and more flexible.
What are the changes in version 2009.2?
First of all, it is necessary to say about Stimulsoft Reports.Web reports viewer – WebViewerFx. This component is developed using the Flex technology and used to view reports. WebViewerFx has well thought-out, user-friendly interface, feature-rich, and, at last, it is good-looking. Using WebViewerFx it is possible to view reports, change report zoom. It allows printing reports. WebViewerFx can save reports to more than 20 different file formats. The viewer Demo is available at http://webfx.stimulsoft.com/WebViewerFx.aspx .
Stimulsoft Reports now supports additional 2 new export formats. These are SVG and MS PowerPoint. Royal Mail 4-state that is used for automatic mail sorting was also included. Starting with version 2009.2 reports can be saved in encrypted format.
The choice of supported languages has been expanded with Arabic, making the product accessible to more people in their native language.
Stimulsoft Reports.Web v2009.2, Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf v2009.2, and Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web v2009.2 support cross-tabs.
Also some errors of previous versions were corrected. This made the products more robust.
2009/06/30
Stimulsoft Company today announces the release of a new product – Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf – the reporting tool for WPF.
Stimulsoft Company strives for using the most advanced technologies, develops today trying to predict what user may need tomorrow. The reporting tool for WPF is the fully functional reporting tool that is developed on the base of Windows Presentation Foundation technology. This technology is getting more and more extended and popular.
Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf includes the set of features which makes the work with reports simple and handy:
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface;
- Work with multiline reports;
- Stylizing;
- User interface is localized into more than 20 languages;
- A report can be saved to file, string, array, database fields. Also reports can be saved as classes in C# and VB.NET programming languages;
- Rendered reports can be exported to more than 30 file formats (PDF, XPS, Word, Excel etc);
- Huge amount of components, unique set of properties presented only in Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf.
It is worth saying some words about the WpfViewer. Well thought-out design, animation, multiple delicate settings – all this make it maximally friendly, beautiful, quick and adjustable.
Stimulsoft Company today announces the release of a new product – Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf – the reporting tool for WPF.
Stimulsoft Company strives for using the most advanced technologies, develops today trying to predict what user may need tomorrow. The reporting tool for WPF is the fully functional reporting tool that is developed on the base of Windows Presentation Foundation technology. This technology is getting more and more extended and popular.
Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf includes the set of features which makes the work with reports simple and handy:
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface;
- Work with multiline reports;
- Stylizing;
- User interface is localized into more than 20 languages;
- A report can be saved to file, string, array, database fields. Also reports can be saved as classes in C# and VB.NET programming languages;
- Rendered reports can be exported to more than 30 file formats (PDF, XPS, Word, Excel etc);
- Huge amount of components, unique set of properties presented only in Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf.
It is worth saying some words about the WpfViewer. Well thought-out design, animation, multiple delicate settings – all this make it maximally friendly, beautiful, quick and adjustable.
2009/05/28
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web
Stimulsoft reports has a web based report designer component that provides full report editing
capabilities inside a web browser. Thanks to this component called Designer.Web you can now
allow end users to edit reports to their requirements and save the report definition locally
or on the server. The best part of the Designer.Web is drag and drop deployment, all you need
to do is insert the designer component on an ASP.NET webform and write one line of code to start
allowing users to edit existing report or create their own reports. This feature would be extremely
useful for minor changes that would normally require developer intervention such as changing color,
font or alignment of text or adding a new field to the table or changing the location of the page
number.
The salient features of Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web are:
1) Platform independent (runs on Adobe Flash®)
2) Drag and drop implementation and deployment
3) Option of saving report definition on the web server or on user’s computer
4) Extremely useful for minor changes and updates by end users
5) Extremely useful for global development teams
The official documentation and training videos can be found at:
Video Tutorials:
http://www.stimulsoft.com/ReportsDesignerWebVideos.aspx.
User Manual:
http://www.stimulsoft.com/Documentation/SRDesignerWebUserManual.En.Pdf.zip.
Download latest version of Report Designer.Web from
http://www.stimulsoft.com/Downloads.aspx.
The data for this sample report will come from the
AdventureWork sample database provided by Microsoft.
In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to use the web designer with the following activities
1) Add Reports Designer.Web to your web page
2) Show Designer.Web on Edit button click
3) Create a simple table Report in Designer.Web
4) Add a new connection to the report
5) Add a Data Source to the report
6) Add a Table to the report
7) Preview and Save Report
1) Add Reports Designer.Web to your web page
• Drag and Drop StiWebDesinger1 from the toolbox to your webpage
2) Show Designer.Web on Edit button click
• Drag and Drop a button Standard ASP.NET button onto the page and type the text as “Edit Report”
• Add an event handler for the edit button and add the following line to show the Designer.Web
protected void btnEdit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
StiWebDesigner1.Design(new Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport());
}
3) Create a simple table Report in Designer.Web
• Start your website in Debug mode by pressing the debug button on the Visual Studio toolbar or by pressing the F5 key
• Click on the Edit Report button
• Reports designer now opens inside Internet Explorer
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4) Add a new connection to the report
• Select the Dictionary Tab on the right side of the reports designer
• Click on the New Item Icon and select a New Connection
• Select the SQL Connection and click OK
• Type the connection string for the AdventureWorks database
• Click test to confirm that the connection string is correct
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5) Add a Data Source to the report
• Click on the New Item icon the Dictionary Tab and select New Data Source
• Select Data from the SQL Connection and Click Ok
• Type the name of the query in the Name field as Sales
• Type the SQL query in the Query Text Field
• Click on the Retrieve Columns to confirm that you have all the required columns
• Click Ok to see the Sales Datasource in the Dictionary Pane
• The following query has been used in the report
SELECT [SalesOrderID]
,[RevisionNumber]
,[OrderDate]
,[DueDate]
,[ShipDate]
,[Status]
,[OnlineOrderFlag]
,[SalesOrderNumber]
,[PurchaseOrderNumber]
,[AccountNumber]
,[CustomerID]
,[ContactID]
,[SalesPersonID]
,st.Name
,[BillToAddressID]
,[ShipToAddressID]
,[ShipMethodID]
,[CreditCardID]
,[CreditCardApprovalCode]
,[CurrencyRateID]
,[SubTotal]
,[TaxAmt]
,[Freight]
,[TotalDue]
,[Comment]
FROM [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SalesOrderHeader] soh
Inner join [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SalesTerritory] st on soh.TerritoryID = st.TerritoryID
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6) Add a Table to the report
• Click on the Menu icon and Select New
• Select New Report with Wizard
• Select Standard Report and Click OK
• Expand the Connection and Select Sales as the Datasource
• Click Next to select columns
• Select all the columns required to be displayed
• Continue through all the steps with default settings or change them according to your requirements
• Click to see the final report design
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7) Preview and Save Report
• Please remember to disable the popup blocker for the localhost
• Click on the preview tab and select Preview as HTML
• The report preview will open in a popup window
• Switch to the report designer window and click on the menu icon
• Now select “Save As”
• Click Save again if you have the trial version
• Select any location on the local drive to store the report
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Notes:
1) Save As is used to download the report definition on local user’s drive
2) Save is used to save the report on the server side
The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn
2009/04/24
Stimulsoft Reports.Web v2009.1 reporting tool. It became much easier to create reports in Web.
Many new capabilities have been introduced in the version 2009.1. These innovations make it possible to increase the productivity of reports creation and to save time. Here are some crucial changes in the Web reports designer:
- Styles are supported;
- Conditions are supported;
- Charts are supported,
- Data adapters are also supported;
- Wizards for building reports have been added. Among them are: Standard Report Wizard, Master-Detail Wizard, Label Wizard.
- The User Interface of the software is localized in 23 languages. There are English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, most of languages of Eastern Europe countries etc.
- The report engine underwent very thorough changes:
- To already exist 20 export formats (such as PDF, Word, XPS, Excel, TXT etc) new exports to DIV and SYLK are added.
- In the earlier versions, the unique tool that is used to import reports, created on base Crystal Reports reporting tool to Stimulsoft Reports, was delivered as a single archive. But now this Import.CrystalReports.exe tool is included into the report engine. Some fundamental improvements have been done to optimize the import of reports and make it more complete and precise.
More information about Stimulsoft Reports.Web can be found at official site of Stimulsoft http://www.stimulsoft.com
Stimulsoft Reports.Web overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the report generator for Web. It gives an unlimited opportunity to create reports, starting with creating report templates and ending with showing reports in a Web browser. Reports can be exported to more than 20 export formats: PDF, XPS, Excel, Word, HTML, RTF, XML and others. And it takes minimum efforts and time. Stimulsoft Reports.Web works in any browser that support Flash Player 9.
The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.
Detailed information, as well as product description, licensing procedure, documentation, Flash tutorials, Demo version of the product can be found at http://www.stimulsoft.com.
Pricing and Conditions
The scheme of Licensing depends on the number of developers who directly take part in development. The product is available immediately for $599.95 (US) for a single user license without source code and $999.95 with source code through the Stimulsoft store (www.stimulsoft.com) and authorized resellers worldwide. Registered users are entitled to a one year subscription program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The subscription program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product.
Please, explore www.stimulsoft.com to learn more about the product.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web version 2009.1 released.
The new version of the product was developed to speed up and simplify work with the Web reports designer. Starting with the version 2009.1, styles and conditions are supported. Instead of manual formatting of each component, it is possible to create a new style in a report and customize all necessary parameters. Also it allows changing the design of components, depending on specified conditions. Charts, Data adapters, sub-reports are supported in Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web. A lot of new properties and functions are included in this version.
The complete list of changes available in the product is published at http://www.stimulsoft.com/AllNews.aspx.
Full description of the software can be found at the official site of the company www.stimulsoft.com.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web overview
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is the report designer for Web.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web allows users to edit reports completely in a window of a Web browser as easy and quickly as possible. And all this can be done without installing .Net Framework, ActiveX components etc on the client’s machine. The only requirement is Flash Player.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web has modern Ribbon interface. Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is equipped with multiple functions such as visual component builder, drag’n’drop, functions for work with the Clipboard, tabular editing, zooming, saving reports, export reports to PDF, HTML and many other useful functions.
To integrate the report designer into the ASP.NET application you need to put one non-visual ASP. NET component on a page. And then, only one string of a code runs the report designer in a browser.
The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.
Pricing and availability
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is available for the price starting with $299.95 without source code and $499.95 with source code. Registered users are entitled to a one year Subscription Program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The Subscription Program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product. Additional information about Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from www.stimulsoft.com/.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net version 2009.1 released. Expanding potential.
The version 2009.1 provides unquestionable advantages for developers. The potential is expanded by means of the following changes:
- Two new exports are included in the new version. It is export to the DIV and SYLK formats.
- Also the import from RTF is added. Now there is no need waste time to recreate the structure of document built using Microsoft Word. It is enough to save this document to the RTF format and open it in the reports designer of Stimulsoft Reports.Net.
- Five new UI localizations have been added: Croatian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, and Serbian.
- Starting with the version 2009.1 it is possible to sort data by expression.
- A new level of Interactivity is developed. Now it is possible to collapse, resort data in the window of Viewer. Also it became possible to create Drill-Down reports.
- It will never be difficult for a user to import reports from Crystal Reports to Stimulsoft Reports. In previous versions the import from Crystal Reports was delivered as a single archive. In version 2009.1 the Import.CrystalReports.exe tool is globally reprocessed and included into the report engine.
- Now it is possible to use Html Tags in text expressions.
In addition, Stimulsoft Reports.Net v2009.1 includes substantial changes which make the reporting tool more feature rich and more powerful.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is the report writer for the.Net Framework. It represents unique abilities for report creation. The Designer has the full set of tools for developers. It helps them to create reports of any complexity as easy and fast as possible. It is possible to view created reports both in Windows and Web. And the most remarkable thing is that there is no need for a user to make any efforts to do it.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is packed with great many samples of reports, projects, and flash tutorials. It is enough for a user to select a sample of a report, make some changes into the report structure, assign a data base, and print a report.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2009.1 supports .NET 2, .NET 3, and .NET 3.5.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2009.1 supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.
Licensing
Obtaining a license for Stimulsoft Reports.Net grants a one year subscription program that allows developers to get free product updates, upgrades and fixes, major and minor releases as well as timely technical support. Stimulsoft Reports.Net does not require royalties at runtime and design time.
Additional information on Stimulsoft Reports.Net, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available at http://www.stimulsoft.com .