FastReport.net is a full-featured reporting solution for developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 or any other development tool that works with .NET Framework 2.0 and above.
FastReport.net has four key technical features:
Report Elements.
- Band-oriented report generator with 13 types of bands available: Report Title, Report Summary, Page Header, Page Footer, Column Header, Column Footer, Data Header, Data, Data Footer, Group Header, Group Footer, Child, Overlay.
- Wide range of report objects available.
- Report can consist of several design pages.
- Powerful, fully configurable Matrix object that can be used to print pivot tables.
- GDI+ rendering: this will help to create professional-looking reports.
- Report inheritance.
Report Designer.
- Unlike many other reporting tools FastReport.net uses a powerful visual report designer. It has a fully customisable interface with MS Visual Studio look. Report designer can be used in run-time.
- The Report Structure control visualises the logical structure of your report.
- Standard Report wizard.
- Label wizard.
- The report designer can be used in MDI (Multi-Document Interface) mode to allow work with several reports at one time. Data Processing.
- Directly connect to ADO, MS SQL, xml-based databases.
- Ability to get data from business objects of IEnumerable type.
- Report can contain data sources (tables, queries, DB connections).
FastReport.net key technical features continued:
- A built-in script engine that supports two .NET languages, C# and VB.NET.
- Using visual query builder, you don’t have to learn the SQL language to create a complex query from several data tables.
Preview, Print, Export.
- Interactive reports.
- Rich printing abilities.
- Add watermarks to your report with minimum effort.
- Export filters allow you to export your report to many supported formats (PDF, RTF, XLS, XML, HTML, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, TXT, CSV, Open Document Format).
- Send report by email with one mouse click.
