Report Parameters and Drill-Down Reports with Chart. New Video Tutorials Added.

It is not always enough for users to just read technical documentation for the program. Sometimes it is better repeat exactly what is shown on a video than read carefully between lines and understand what the technical writer had in mind and what were his thoughts when writing the user manual.

That is why our company pays serious attention to the section Video and continually replenishes it with the most popular fresh movies. This year we have added several new lessons on working with Parameters and interaction of the Chart component. Go to the Video Section of our site and watch videos, showing these features in detail. Each video clip has a short step-by-step description of what is happening on the screen. You will be pleasantly surprised at how you can speed up the creation of reports.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here come the main and miraculous holidays. They are not only winter ones but all year long. Christmas and a New Year are celebrations, which are long-expected for adults and children, men and women. Look around, your colleagues are happy just because beautiful green Christmas trees adorn their houses, and the whole city is illuminated with colored lights.
We congratulate all our friends with these wonderful holidays! We wish you the next year be accompanied by success in all initiatives, good luck follows your each step and only happiness cloaks your life. We, in turn, will do everything we can to protect you from reporting issues that may pester you. The beginning of the year sets the tone of its run - we see the holidays with you to be close in a challenging moment and you could always rely on us. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thank you, All!

Always yours! Stimulsoft Team.

Special Gifts and Offerings in Christmas Wrappings.

Dear, colleagues!

Our company is glad to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and wish to meet Holidays not in a stuffy office staring at annoyingly blinking monitor, but in the bosom of your close-knit family, at the banquet table full of various delicacies and sweets. Under the Christmas tree you will find many gifts. You can get a gift from our company right now.

Update your current license
to the license of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate with 33% discount.

Right now you can upgrade your current license on the license of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate with 33% Christmas discount and additional 12 months of Subscription. This offer is valid for registered users (registered users are organizations and individuals who have ever bought one of the software products of our company, regardless whether their subscription program is active or expired). For better understanding there is an example of calculation discounts. For example, you have a Single License of Stimulsoft Reports.Net. In this case the price is calculated as follows. The price for a Single License of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate minus the price for a Single License of Stimulsoft Reports.Net. The formula looks like this ($1199.95 - $599.95) * 0.67 = $399.95.
There is no need to worry about your Subscription Program terms. Its update will be carried out on the very best conditions. For example, your Subscription Program expires on February, 1 2012. You purchased upgrade of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate on December, 1 2011. In this case the duration of Subscription Program of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate will be until February, 1 2014. Why? We will take into consideration the term of your recent Subscription Program and add one additional year and one more additional year!

How to use this offer?
It is very simple! You need to go to the Purchase page of our website, choose the renewal of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate and pay for it.

Update your Subscription Program now
and get additional 12 months of support as a gift.

Your subscription program comes to an end or has already expired, but you want to renew it? Or maybe you just decided not to put aside the update until the last moment and want to do it now? Hurry! Please update subscription program now and get additional 12 months as a gift. There is no need to worry about your Subscription Program terms. Its prolongation will be carried out on the very best conditions. For example, your Subscription Program expires on February, 1 2012. You purchased upgrade of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate on December, 1 2011. In this case the duration of Subscription Program of Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate will be until February, 1 2014. Why? We will take into consideration the term of your recent Subscription Program and add one additional year and one more additional year!

How to use this offer?
It is very simple! You need to go to the Purchase page of our website, choose the renewal of the License you have and pay for it.

Buy any of our products and get
a 24-month Subscription Program instead of the standard 12 months.

You are not a registered user? Do not worry about this. We have a special offer for you! You can purchase any of our products licenses and get a 2 years Subscription Program instead of the standard one year. During this time you will be able to get technical support, use prerelease versions of the weekly product updates that you can immediately use in their projects.

How to use this offer?
It is very simple! You need to go to the Purchase page of our website, choose the software product that suits you and pay for it.

For getting more information or in case of update ways not described in this news, please send your request to our sales department sales@stimulsoft.com

Stimulsoft Reports Product Line. New Version 2011.3 Released.

We are happy to announce the release of the new version 2011.3 of our Stimulsoft Report product line. It was two months of very tough time. During this period we prepared multiple innovations for you to make your development easier and faster. The enhancements and updates elaborately described in this article.

Stimulsoft Reports.Fx Product Line Version 2011.3 Released.

We are happy to announce the release the Stimulsoft Reports.Fx product line version 2011.3. Stimulsoft Reports.Fx product line includes the products Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex, Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP, Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Java. In this version we have widened the list of supported exports and added the HTML format. We also added new converting functions, updated the utility Report Checker, included new sections and articles to the documentation. Please read the description of the features implemented in the product.

The WebViewer component is redesigned.

"There is nothing new except what is forgotten" many people think this way, but not specialists of Stimulsoft. Everything new is either an innovative breakthrough or a skilfully added and improved time-tested idea. Each application, each component released by Stimulsoft, is a neat product. It is the result of long work of our specialists. But, eventually, everything needs to be improved and we know it. Introducing you an old friend with a new face - WebViewer. Just to remind you that WebViewer is used to display reports in the web page. But do not be afraid of innovations. These updates do not force you to re-learn and get used to the new look. All you need is to relax. We have done some redesigning, in other words we redesigned the component WebViewer. Due to this, visual perception have been improved many times. The component is delivered with the product: Reports.Net, Reports.Web, and Reports.Ultimate. How did old WebViewer look like before the changes (see the picture below)?  

  Now let us compare it with our "old friend, but with a new face": A new appearance of the menu, which supports various themes: Windows XP,  

  Office 2003,  

  2007 (black, blue, silver)  

  Office 2010,  

  Windows 7  

  and the default theme, which is most similar to the old theme of the WebViewer before redesigning:  

  A wide choice for fans of diversity. Multilevel menu is available when saving a report while exporting that will allow getting rid of its unwieldiness on the screen and logically group items of export. The new menu became animated. This added one extra reason to enjoy work. Finally a new panel of variables appeared. What is it? If a user creates report variables which, before report rendering, should be requested from the user, the pane appears in the viewer, which displays the data variables, and requires the input values. You should enter data and click send. The report is re-rendered and uses values of variables.  

In contrast to the old bar, where you have had only text input variables, in the new one it has become possible to select a date using the visual calendar; drop-down menus and lists, and many more other features. Also, the new panel has a visual appearance of the selected WebViewer theme. We also modified the WebViewer component itself. We added a new nice appearance. The WebViewer items now have frames, shadows and borders. Updated WebViewer is easy to handle. You do not have to install a special Internet browser or any extensions to get it work. Our WebViewer works in any web browser under any operating system. Also, our experts have considered Stimulsoft today's popular trend of working with web applications in mobile browsers. So now you can access the WebViewer, using pads or any other mobile devices. So now, already familiar, well-known and comfortable viewer, brought to you in a new, more favorable to-use form. Hopefully now, the work will move farther away from the word routine. Enjoy your working time.

WCF Samples Updated.

We have updated the WCF Samples. Please see the changes below:

1. We have added support of the new interaction for the DataBand.
((StiBandInteraction)dabaBand.Interaction).SelectionEnabled = true;

2. We have added the new event:
Stimulsoft.Report.StiOptions.Silverlight.WCFService.WCFInteractiveDataBandSelection

Please download the updated samples here.
These new samples will work in the prerelease build of Stimulsoft Reports.Silverlight. The prerelease build will be available on November, 10. It can be downloaded here.