2011/08/10

Support of WCF Server: recent changes (Updated on April, 11).

We have already announced in our news on January 18, 2011 support of WCF in Stimulsoft Reports.Silverlight reporting tool.
Our developers have made some improvements and corrections in this direction:


1. Support of variables with RequestFromUser=true is added.


2. We fixed a bug with rendering a report on the server containing the variables RequestFromUser type List.


3. Support of the following stuff is added:


DB2Database;


DotConnectUniversal;


EffiProzDatabase;


FirebirdDatabase;


InformixDatabase;


MySQLDatabase;


OracleDatabase;


OracleODPDatabase;


PostgreSQLDatabase;


PostgreSQLDatabase.CoreLab;


SQLCeDatabase;


SQLiteDatabase;


SybaseDatabase.ADS;


SybaseDatabase.ASE;


UniDirectDatabase;


VistaDBDatabase.


4. The TestConnecting processing method is extended.

Stimulsoft Reports.Fx product line: an export to TXT file format is implemented.

In the Stimulsoft Reports.Fx product we expand the list of supported exporting formats. To the existing ones, such as PDF, Excel, RTF, we added the export TXT format.
Text file (TXT) is a text file that consists of a sequence of characters. Characterss are grouped into rows.


This feature is already included and available for evaluation in the prerelease build of the product from March 09, 2011. The prerelease build
can be downloaded here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and
here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP.

Stimulsoft - Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2010-2011 on ComponentSource.


Today we are honor to announce that our company wins the Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2010-2011 on ComponentSource.
The awards are given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers, based on the total sales dollar value of orders
placed by customers during the year through ComponentSource.


ComponentSource is a worldwide reseller of software products. The company has now sold software product licenses
to over 125,000 different customer organizations globally, and has made international sales in over 180 countries
worldwide. This shows the importance of the ComponentSource Website as the world's best source of commercial quality
software components and development tools for programmers and IT pros. The Awards help customers to differentiate
and select the best products for their needs.


"This award is based on real orders from our international customers, as such they represent a real global
market snap-shot for commercial software component and development tools in 2010." says Sam Patterson, CEO
of ComponentSource. "We believe the awards are the most accurate market survey available of how our customers
are using these development products day to day in their latest projects."

The Sub-Report component is implemented in Stimulsoft Reports.Fx products.

The Sub-Report is a report component that can be placed on a band, page, panel or any other component that can be a container for the sub-report.
When placing this component, the reporting tool will add a sub-page into the report and bind it with the Sub-Report. When rendering a report,
the reporting tool will build all sub-reports and place them in this container. A report that has any structure can be created on the sub-page.
Also the Sub-Report component can be placed on the sub-page, so the sub-page of the second level will be created. In other words it is
possible to create complex hierarchy in a report.


This feature is already included and available for evaluation in the prerelease build of the product from Febuary 15, 2011. The prerelease build
can be downloaded here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and
here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP.






Clone and Text In Cells components are added in Stimulsoft Reports.Fx products.

Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP are developed rapidly.
In a new prerelease build we are pleased to announce the implementation of two new components: Clone and Text In Cells.
The Clone component is designed to clone parts of a report into a required part of the report.
The Text In Cells component is used for displaying a text in cases when creating of forms is required.


This feature is already included and available for evaluation in the prerelease build of the product from Febuary 08, 2011. The prerelease build
can be downloaded here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and
here for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP.






The new utility Import.Rdl is added and available on our site.

This utility allows you to quickly convert your .rdl or .rdlc document to the .mrt format of our report generator. All you need is to specify the path where your .rdl file is located (the RDl Template field)
and define the folder where the file should be saved to as .mrt file (the Stimulsoft Reports Template field). Then click Convert. The file is converted! Open the report designer and continue editing the document.
RDL (Report Definition Language) is an XML application used with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.


It is possible to download this utility as well as other importing tools Import.CrystalReports and Import.Rtf on our website at the Tools section.


In the prerelease build of the products from February, 02 2011 this feature is already included and available for
evaluation. You may download the prerelease build of Stimulsoft Reports.Net here
and of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate here.






A new Import.RTF tool is added to Reports.Net, Reports.Wpf and Reports.Ultimate reporting tools.

This tool allows you to quickly and easily convert your .rtf document to the .mrt format of our reporting tool.
All you need is to specify the path to the .rtf document in the RichTextFile field, and then, in the Stimulsoft Reports
Template field, choose the path to save the .mrt file. Then click the Convert button. Your file is converted! Then open the report
designer and continue editing the document. In the prerelease build of the product from November 26, 2010 this feature is already included and available for evaluation.
You may download the prerelease build here .