Stimulsoft Reporting – Styles for Reports

Styles are arguably the most important feature in Stimulsoft reporting. Why? Because element of a report has a style attached.
The definition of a style is two-fold. First, you can think of a style as a set of pre-defined formatting instructions that you can
use repeatedly throughout all reports in your application. Let's say each report header must be centered, uppercase, bold, and a
slightly larger font size. Each time you need to apply formatting to the heading, you have to go through the entire process to get
the text the way you want it. If you store the formatting commands in a style, you can apply that style any time you need it without
having to do all of the reformatting.

Possibly more important however is that styles are used to "tag" or identify parts of a report. An example of this is whether text is of data
type Numeric, a String, a DateTime, or an Expression. Styles can be created for complex controls such as Charts and Cross-Tab. These are all examples of styles in Stimulsoft reports.

If you're concerned about whether or not you need to learn styles, we can put it rather simply: you do. Styles allow for quick formatting modifications throughout the report and can be tied into columns or even particular data values to make working with conditional formatting much easier.

There are several reasons for using styles in a report:


• Consistency — when you use styles to format your report, each section is formatted the same and therefore, provides a professional, clean-looking report.
Moreover, these styles definitions can be shared among all reports in your application to given each report a consistent look and feel.


• Easier to Modify — If you use styles in your report consistently, you only need to update a given style once if you want to change the characteristics of all text formatted in that style.


• Efficiency — you can create a style once, and then apply it to any report without having to format each report individually.

Steps for Creating and Applying Styles:

1. Create a style in Ribbon GUI


2. Set a style for a report in Ribbon GUI


3. Create a style in Standard UI


4. Set a style for a report in Standard UI


5. Apply Style to report header






1. Create a style in Ribbon GUI

• Click on Style Designer Icon on the Home Ribbon;


• In the style designer, click on Add Style and select Component;


• Type the name as Report header;


• Type the description as This style will be applied to all report headers;


• Select the text brush color to any color of your choice as per user requirements;


• Select Brush of the background of the text as your choice, I selected glass to make it look cool;


• Set the border if required;


• Set Font and size;


• Set Horizontal and Vertical Align;


• Notice that the style preview changes as you make your selections;


• Hit Save button to save this style definition to used in other reports.

2. Set a style for a report in Ribbon GUI

• Report styles are stored with extension .sts;


• Open style designer to style as style for the report;


• Click on Open Style;


• Browse to the location where your report style has been stored and select it;


• Now Stimulsoft report designer loads all the style definitions.

3. Create a style in Standard UI

• Make sure that you have the style toolbar visible by going to View -> Toolbars -> Style;


• Once you have the style toolbar visible in your report designer click on the Style Designer Icon;


• In the style designer, click on Add Style and select Component;


• Type the name as Report header;


• Type the description as This style will be applied to all report headers;


• Select the text brush color to any color of your choice as per user requirements;


• Select Brush of the background of the text as your choice, I selected glass to make it look cool;


• Set the border if required;


• Set Font and size;


• Set Horizontal and Vertical Align;


• Notice that the style preview changes as you make your selections;


• Hit Save button to save this style definition to used in other reports.

4. Set a style for a report in Standard UI

• Report styles are stored with extension .sts;


• Open style designer to style as style for the report;


• Click on Open Style;


• Browse to the location where your report style has been stored and select it;


• Now Stimulsoft report designer loads all the style definitions.

5. Apply Style to report header

• Add a report title to your report;


• Add a text label inside the report title;


• Change the text to Sales Report and increase the width of the style to span the width of the report;


• Goto Appearance section of the properties of the label and select custom styles;


• Select Report Header;


• No we find that the report title has been formatted as per our style specifications.

The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn

Stimulsoft Report Checker – Cop for Reports

Stimulsoft reporting provides a tool that checks your reports for problems which you may miss. This tool
is unique to Stimulsoft and can be a very helpful feature for quality control. Users can run checks for warnings,
compilation errors, recommendations and even advice. In many cases the report checker can show you a preview of
the report with the problem area highlighted and also provides ways to fix the issues in the report definition file.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create shipping label report in Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf and check it
in Report Checker.Wpf and fix the errors, warnings and recommendations.

The data for this sample report will come from the
Northwind sample database provided by Microsoft.

The demo version of Stimulsoft reporting tools can be downloaded from the website
http://stimulsoft.com/ReportsNetDownloads.aspx.

Steps are required in order to create a simple report:

1. Add a connection to your report


2. Add required data sources to report


3. Add Orders to the report


4. Fix report in Report Checker






1. Add a data source to your report

• Open Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf Designer from start menu, the WPF designer is big improvement of the windows forms designer and looks very similar to the office 2010 interface;


• Select Dictionary Tab in the right pane;


• Select New Item and click on New Connection;


• The new connection wizard gives you various options for different types of connections, namely SQL connection, OleDB connection, XML data and ODBC connection;


• Select SQL connection for this tutorial;


• Give the connection any name that represents the database. For our example I will name it Northwind;


• Click on Build button to create a connection string or paste it into the connection string text area. You can also create your own connection string using instructions given on http://www.connectionstrings.com


• Click on the test button to make sure that the connection string works.

2. Add required data sources to report

• Right-click on the newly created Northwind connection and select New Data Source;


• Select Northwind and click OK;


• Stimulsoft reports will display all data objects that are available for reporting;


• For our example we will selected Orders and Order details tables and click OK;


• Orders and Order Details tables as now available under Northwind connection.

3. Add Orders to the report

• Find Data Band in Toolbox on Left side of report designer;


• Drag and drop the data band from toolbox into the report to create a new data band. When prompted for data source selection just click ok;


• Move your mouse to top right corner of data and to see various small buttons, click on the left most to select data source;


• Select orders to assign orders as the data source of the data band;


• Drap and Drop Text object into the Header to display Orders header;


• We will use HTML formatting to display Orders in Bold. Type <B>Orders</B> to display it in Bold;


• Drag and Drop Order Date, Ship Name, Ship Address, Ship City, Region, Country and Postal Code to the Data Band;


• This report will help users print shipping labels so we will need to a bar code also;


• Drag and Drop the bar code object into the data band;


• Right click on the barcode and select properties;


• Find the Code Property and click on … button on right most corner of the property;


• Drag and Drop the Order.Freight property into the text edit, this tells the report designer to generate barcodes based on value of freight;


• Click on the preview tab to see how the report looks with real data;


• Save the file as Order.mrt as a known location.

4. Fix report in Report Checker

• Open report checker from start menu;


• Click on the Open button and browse to Orders.mtr and click on Open;


• Report Checker will scan Order.mrt and display its findings;


• We can see that there are 2 warnings;


• The first warning shows as one of the components in the report is outside the page;


• To view which component is outside the page, simple move your move over to the magnifying glass to see a preview;


• We can clearly see that the bar code is highlighted in Red and is outside the page;


• I don’t need to go back to the report designer to fix, I can simply click on Move to page or To Print Area to fix this;


• Now I can go back to the report designer to see that the bar code has been moved inside the margin;


• The second warning shows that AllowHtmlTags property is set to False;


• Move your move over the magnifying glass to see that Orders header is highlighted;


• To fix this error simply click on the On button;


• When we go back to report designer we can see that the ugly <B> tags are gone and Orders text is displayed in bold;


• Now we can go to preview tab to see the final result.

The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn

Stimulsoft Simple Tabular Report using Business Objects

Stimulsoft reporting provides a set of powerful reporting tools for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008 and 2010;
these tools are available for windows forms as well as web forms. They provide many useful features such as an easy
to use report designer and native support for exporting to PDF, Word, Excel, XPS and many other formats. Stimulsoft
reporting now supports binding to any .NET class; this feature is called business objects in the report designer.
Crystal Report and Microsoft reports are great for day to day reporting, but if you need to create reports with
cross-tabs and drill down, Ajax, support for barcodes and connecting to more than one report source at the same time,
then Stimulsoft reporting is a very good solution. They also have a feature where end users can create their own reports
for Adhoc reporting. All these features make Stimulsoft reports a good choice for business intelligence reporting.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Master Detail report using the Business Objects (.NET classes). Show how
to create an ADO.NET data model, register entities as business objects with Stimulsoft report designer and design a
tabular report and save the report definition file to run the newly created report.

The data for this sample report will come from the
Northwind sample database provided by Microsoft.

The demo version of Stimulsoft reporting tools can be downloaded from the website at
http://stimulsoft.com/ReportsNetDownloads.aspx.

Steps are required in order to create a Master Detail report using Business Objects

Add an ADO.NET data model to your project


2. Generate Entity Model for Northwind database


3. Register Business Objects with Report Desinger


4. Design new report using Business Objects


5. Associate Customers to child orders


6. Add Master and Detail tables to the report layout


7. Run new report using Business Objects






1. Add an ADO.NET data model to your project

• Make sure you are targeting .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 or higher


• Right-click on project name in Solution Explorer


• Select Add and then select New Item


• Select ADO.NET Entity Date Model


• Type the name of the model file, for this tutorial it is going to be Northwind.edmx


• Click on Add button

2. Generate Entity Model for Northwind database

• Select Generate from database and click Next


• Choose the connection string for Northwind or build our own connection string using instructions given on http://www.connectionstrings.com


• Select all database objects that you want to report on. For this tutorial we are going to select only the tables.


• Type the namespace of the ADO.NET entity model as NorthwindModel or any other namespace or our choice and click on Finish.


• Visual studio will now scan the database schema and generate all required Entity model classes and definitions.


• Browse the Entity model to see various entities that are created.


• We will be using Customers entity to list all customers in our report.

3. Register Business Objects with Report Desinger

• Create a new form in your project


• Make sure you have added the reference to required Stimulsoft Reports.Net dlls by right-clicking on the project and selecting add reference.


• Add a button called Design Report and another button called Run Report.


• Create an event handler for the Design Report button.


• Add some code to get a list of customers and list of orders from those customers using Northwind entity model (For simplicity
we are getting list of all customers, in practice you would be using LINQ to form a query by following tutorials provided
Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738636.aspx )


• The Entity Data Model shows that Customers has a property classes Orders, it also shows there are 1 to many relationship
between customers and orders.


• Create a new StiReport object and load the report definition from “C:\MyReport.mrt” if the file exists (For this tutorial
we have fixed the location of report file for simplicity)


• Register the list of customers and list of orders with the report object.


• Stimulsoft report designer scans the definition of customer and determines that it has child orders, this will be very
helpful while designing the report.


• Call the Design function of the report object to launch the designer.

     using Stimulsoft.Report;



   /// <summary>

   /// Event Handler for Design Report button

   /// </summary>

   private void Design_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

     // Get Report Object

     StiReport report = GetReport();

     // Launch Report Deginer for the report

     report.Design();

   }



   /// <summary>

   /// This function Loads report definition from a fixed location

   /// and registers all Business Objects in the report definition

   /// </summary>

   ///

   /// StiReport object for the report

   ///

   private StiReport GetReport()

   {

     // Create a new object of StiReport Class

     StiReport report = new StiReport();



     // Load the report definition file from C:\MyReport.mrt if the file exists

     // This tutorial assumes you have are storing the report definition in a fixed location

     // If the file does not exists then Designer will allow you to save the your newly created report in the location

     if (File.Exists("C:\\MyReport.mrt"))

     {

       report.Load("C:\\MyReport.mrt");

     }



     // Get of List of all customers and List of all orders from database using ADO.net Enity data model

     NorthWindEntities nw = new NorthWindEntities();

     List customers = nw.Customers.ToList();

     List orders = nw.Orders.ToList();

     nw.Dispose();

     // Register Business Objects for Customers and Orders in the report
     report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Customers", customers);
     report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Orders", orders);


     // Return report to calling function

       return report;

     }


4. Design new report using Business Objects

• On run the project by pressing F5 on your keyboard or click on Start Debugging button in Visual Studio

• Click on Design Report button to show the Stimulsoft report designer

• Brower to Dictionary and Expand Business Objects

• Northwind is shown here because we specified category of Customers while registering business objects using RegBusinessObject function

• Expand Northwind to see customers and orders

• Expand Customers to see all the fields that belong to customers

• Expand Orders to see all the fields that belong to orders

5. Associate Customers to child orders

• In order to associate Customer to their child orders we need to show orders under customers

• Right click on Customers and select New Business Object

• Select Child of Business Object

• Select Orders from the list of children of Customers

• Make any changes alias of orders or to columns inside Orders or add new calculated columns

• Click Ok to continue

6. Add Master and Detail tables to report layout

• Drag Customers and drop into the report layout to add customers table to the design

• Select all the fields that you want to show in the report

• Drag Orders under customers and drop into the report layout to add orders table to the design

• Select all the fields that you want to show in the report

• Report designer automatically shows details grouped by master

• Change background color of Customers to differentiate it from details

• Click on Preview tab to see the report preview

• Click on Save Report icon save to C:\MyReport.mrt

• Close the report designer

7. Run new report using Business Objects

• Add a event handler for Run Report button

• Create new StiReport object and load the report definition from “C:\MyReport.mrt”
if the file exists (For this tutorial we have fixed the location of report file for simplicity)

• Add code to get a list of customers and list of orders from those customers using Northwind
entity model (For simplicity we are getting list of all customer, in practice you would be using
LINQ to form a query by following tutorials provided Microsoft at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738636.aspx ) )

• The Entity Data Model shows that’s Customers has a property classes Orders, it also shows there
are a 1 to many relationship between customers and orders.

• Create new StiReport object and load the report definition from “C:\MyReport.mrt”
if the file exists (For this tutorial we have fixed the location of report file for simplicity)

• Register the list of customers and list of orders with the report object.

• Call the Show function of the report object to launch the report viewer.

     using Stimulsoft.Report;

     /// <summary>

     /// Event Handler for Run Report button

     /// </summary>

     private void btnRun_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

     {

       // Get Report Object

       StiReport report = GetReport();

       // Show report to user

       report.Show();

     }





   /// <summary>

   /// This function Loads report definition from a fixed location

   /// and registers all Business Objects in the report definition

   /// </summary>

   ///

   /// StiReport object for the report

   ///

   private StiReport GetReport()

   {

     // Create a new object of StiReport Class

     StiReport report = new StiReport();



     // Load the report definition file from C:\MyReport.mrt if the file exists

     // This tutorial assumes you have are storing the report definition in a fixed location

     // If the file does not exists then Designer will allow you to save the your newly created report in the location

     if (File.Exists("C:\\MyReport.mrt"))

     {

       report.Load("C:\\MyReport.mrt");

     }



     // Get of List of all customers and List of all orders from database using ADO.net Enity data model

     NorthWindEntities nw = new NorthWindEntities();

     List customers = nw.Customers.ToList();

     List orders = nw.Orders.ToList();

     nw.Dispose();



     // Register Business Objects for Customers and Orders in the report

     report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Customers", customers);

     report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Orders", orders);



     // Return report to calling function

     return report;

   }









The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn

Stimulsoft Simple Tabular Report using Business Objects

Stimulsoft reporting provides a set of powerful reporting tools for Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2008 and 2010;
these tools are available for windows forms as well as web forms. They provide many useful features such as an easy
to use report designer and native support for exporting to PDF, Word, Excel and various other formats. Stimulsoft
reporting now supports binding to any .net class; this feature is called business objects in the report designer.
Crystal Report and Microsoft reports are great for day to day reporting, but if you need to create reports with
cross-tabs and drill down, Ajax, support for barcodes and connecting to more than one report source at the same time,
then Stimulsoft reporting is a very good solution. They also have a feature where end users can create their own reports
for Adhoc reporting. All these features make Stimulsoft reports a good choice for business intelligence reporting.

In this tutorial I will show to create a simple tabular report using the Business Objects (.net classes). Show how
to create an ADO.NET data model, register entities as business objects with stimulsoft report designer and design a
tabular report and save the report definition file to run the newly created report.

The data for this sample report will come from the
Northwind sample database provided by Microsoft.

The demo version of Stimulsoft reporting tools can be downloaded from the website
http://stimulsoft.com/ReportsNetDownloads.aspx.

Steps are required in order to create a simple tabular report using Business Objects

1. Add an ADO.NET data model to your project


2. Generate Entity Model for Northwind database


3. Register Business Objects with Report Desinger


4. Design new report using Business Objects


5. Run new report using Business Objects






1. Add an ADO.NET data model to your project

• Make sure you targeting .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 or higher


• Right-click on the project name in Solution Explorer


• Select Add and then select New Item


• Select the ADO.NET Entity Date Model


• Type the name of the model file, for this tutorial it is going to be Northwind.edmx


• Click on the Add button

2. Generate Entity Model for Northwind database

• Select Generate from database and click Next


• Choose the connection string for northwind or build our own connection string using instructions given on http://www.connectionstrings.com


• Select all database objects that you want to report on. For the sake of this tutorial we are going to select only the tables.


• Type the namespace of the ADO.net entity model as NorthwindModel or any other namespace or our choice and click on Finish.


• Visual studio will now scan the database schema and generate all required Entity model classes and definitions.


• Browse the Entity model to see various entities that are created.


• We will be using Customers entity to list all customers in our report.

3. Register Business Objects with Report Desinger

• Create a new form in your project


• Make sure you have added the reference to required stimulsoft.net dlls by right-clicking on the project and selecting add reference.


• Add a button called Design Report and another button called Run Report.


• Create an event handler for design report button.


• Add a code to get a list of customers using Northwind entity model (For simplicity we are getting list of all customers, in practice you would be
using LINQ to form a query by following tutorials provided Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738636.aspx )


• Create new a StiReport object and load the report definition from “C:\MyReport.mrt” if the file exists (For this tutorial we have fixed the location of report file for simplicity)


• Register the list of customers with the report object.


• Call the Design function of the report object to launch the designer.

   using Stimulsoft.Report;

  /// <summary>

   /// Event Handler for Design Report button

   /// </summary>

   private void Design_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

    // Get Report Object

    StiReport report = GetReport();

    // Launch Report Deginer for the report

    report.Design();

   }



   /// <summary>

   /// This function Loads report definition from a fixed location

   /// and registers all Business Objects in the report definition

   /// </summary>

   ///

   /// StiReport object for the report

   ///

   private StiReport GetReport()

   {

    // Create a new object of StiReport Class

    StiReport report = new StiReport();



   // Load the report definition file from C:\MyReport.mrt if the file exists

   // This tutorial assumes you have are storing the report definition in a fixed location

   // If the file does not exists then Designer will allow you to save the your newly created report in the location

   if (File.Exists("C:\\MyReport.mrt"))

   {

    report.Load("C:\\MyReport.mrt");



   // Get of List of all customers from database using ADO.net Enity data model

   NorthWindEntities nw = new NorthWindEntities();

   List customers = nw.Customers.ToList();

   nw.Dispose();



   // Register Business Objects for Customers in the report

   report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Customers", customers);



   // Return report to calling function

   return report;

   }


4. Design new report using Business Objects

• On run the project by pressing F5 on your keyboard or click on Start Debugging button in Visual Studio


• Click on Design Report button to show the Stimulsoft report designer


• Brower to Dictionary and Expand Business Objects


• Northwind is shown here because we specified category of Customers while registering business objects using RegBusinessObject function


• Expand Northwind to see customers and expand customers to see all the fields that belong to customers


• Drag Customers and drop into the report layout to add customers table to the design


• Select all the fields that you want to show in the report


• Click on Preview tab to see the report preview


• Click on Save Report icon save to C:\MyReport.mrt


• Close the report designer

5. Run new report using Business Objects

• Add a event handler for Run Report button


• Add code to get a list of customers using Northwind entity model (For simplicity we are getting list of all customer, in practice you would be using LINQ to form a query by following tutorials provided Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738636.aspx )


• Create new StiReport object and load the report definition from “C:\MyReport.mrt” if the file exists (For this tutorial we have fixed the location of report file for simplicity)


• Register the list of customers with the report object.


• Call the Show function of the report object to launch the report viewer.






   using Stimulsoft.Report;

   /// <summary>

   /// Event Handler for Run Report button

   /// </summary>

   private void btnRun_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

     // Get Report Object

     StiReport report = GetReport();

     // Show report to user

     report.Show();

   }



   /// <summary>

   /// This function Loads report definition from a fixed location

   /// and registers all Business Objects in the report definition

   /// </summary>

   ///

   /// StiReport object for the report

   ///

   private StiReport GetReport()

   {

     // Create a new object of StiReport Class

     StiReport report = new StiReport();



     // Load the report definition file from C:\MyReport.mrt if the file exists

     // This tutorial assumes you have are storing the report definition in a fixed location

     // If the file does not exists then Designer will allow you to save the your newly created report in the location

     if (File.Exists("C:\\MyReport.mrt"))

     {

     report.Load("C:\\MyReport.mrt");

     }



     // Get of List of all customers from database using ADO.net Enity data model

     NorthWindEntities nw = new NorthWindEntities();

     List customers = nw.Customers.ToList();

     nw.Dispose();



     // Register Business Objects for Customers in the report

     report.RegBusinessObject("Northwind", "Customers", customers);



     // Return report to calling function

     return report;

   }








The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn

Stimulsoft Company Announces Stimulsoft Reports version 2010.1 release.

March 29, 2010 -- Stimulsoft Company, an outstanding and leading manufacturer of software for business intelligence (reporting solutions for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Flex, PHP), has released version 2010.1 of Stimulsoft Reports. Stimulsoft Reports products help developers from commercial and non-profit organizations all around the world to be more productive and deliver feature-rich and flexible reports on time.

Stimulsoft Reports is the product line which includes reporting tools for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is used to generate reports from various data sources and can be used in Windows Forms, Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the reporting tool for creating reports in Web (ASP.NET), Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf suites tool for creating applications on the base of Windows Presentation Foundation technology, Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is the report designer for Web. Reports are fully compatible with all Stimulsoft reporting tools. In other words, if you create a report in Stimulsoft Reports.Net, then it can be opened and edited in both Stimulsoft Reports.Web and Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf. The product that includes all these editions is Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate.

The new release brings the following changes and updates:
Unique ability to check a report for problems was added in Stimulsoft Reports. The report checker does not only inform a developer about the errors of compilations but provides multiple recommendations, messages, warnings, and advice about fixing the problems. So the issue can be immediately fixed by some of the ways offered.

Reporting tools are able to work with business objects. But, in previous versions, the report generator used a special conversion of business objects to the internal format. That slowed down the process of report rendering and problems appeared when creating complex business objects. In the new version of our products a new type of item in the data dictionary is introduced. It is the Business Objects.

Stimulsoft Reports completely supports the PDF/A format which is a subset of Adobe PDF and can be used for the long-term archiving of electronic documents.

In the new version of the report generator you will find multiple (more than 30) primitives. Among them are lines, arrows, flowcharts, basic shapes etc.

In previous versions of Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf only one theme was available. Now the themes such as 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 are added. New themes are available both in the report viewer and report designer.

Сustomers from Turkey might be pleased to discover that they are now able to use Stimulsoft in their native language. Now the products support 25 languages.

Pricing
Stimulsoft Reports products are available with license for $599,95 per developer seat. The license comes with technical support and free updates for the latest products versions for one year. Pricing of the Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate, including all products of Stimulsoft Reports line is $1,199 per developer seat.

Additional information on Stimulsoft Reports, as well as documentation, Video tutorials and a free evaluation copy of the product is available at http://www.stimulsoft.com

Stimulsoft Reports. New versions of reporting tools for .NET, Web, and WPF

Did it become necessary for you to build reports? You created them in Word, Excel, used special programming packages. It took so much time, efforts. You were nervous, suffered from insomnia. Deadline was near but your work was not complete. Finally, you got some result. But it did not meet your expectations. But reports were not good. And it was impossible to say yourself - yes, that's exactly what I wanted, that's exactly what my client wants. In fact, there are no hopeless situations. As they say, the one, who owns the information, owns the world.
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.