ActiveReports

ActiveReports is a .NET reporting tool, developed by Data Dynamics, now acquired by GrapeCity and used by developers of WinForms and ASP.NET applications. It is a set of reporting components and tools that facilitates analyzing data in documents and web-based formats. It is written in managed C# and allows Visual Studio.NET programmers to leverage their knowledge of C# or Visual Basic.NET when programming for ActiveReports for .NET.
It supports reporting data exports to all popular file formats, including PDF, Excel, RTF, TIFF, and more. ActiveReports features a Visual Studio .NET report designer and an API that developers use to create customized reports from a variety of data sources. ActiveReports is based on a per-developer licensing scheme and supports royalty free deployment.
ActiveReports for .NET also includes a Windows Viewer control that supports split and multi-page views, has a Table of Contents pane with a new Thumbnail view tab, and can perform text searches of reports. It also allows you to customize the viewer's toolbar.
The Professional EDition of ActiveReports for .NET features an End-User Report Designer control that allows you to host the report designer in your own applications to provide end users with the ability to create and modify reports. It also includes a server-side Web Viewer control that takes advantage of ASP.NET's HTTP Handlers to allow you to display reports without having to write custom code for export to popular formats such as HTML and PDF.
New features to ActiveReports for .NET include a brand new chart control, updated memory management features, a RichText control that is capable of rendering HTML and RTF tables, and an integrated script window with syntax highlighting. ActiveReports for .NET additionally allows you to bind data to custom classes based on the iList interface in addition to the other data types already supported in previous versions, and includes enhanced connection timeout capabilities.
ActiveReports for .NET Standard Edition
* Provides an integrated report designer

• Supports OleDB, SQL Server, and XML Datasources, along with ADO.NET (Data Readers, Data Tables, DataViews, and DataSets)
• Includes a customizable Windows Viewer control
• Provides Crystal and Microsoft Access Import utilities
• Provides HTML, PDF, Excel, RTF, TIFF, and Text exports

ActiveReports for .NET Professional Edition
* Includes all of the Standard Edition features

• Includes an End-User Report Designer control
• Includes an ASP.NET Server Web Viewer control

Features New to the Version 6.0 Beta

What's New in the Standard Edition

• Quality and Performance improvements
• New Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) Bar Codes
• Support for External Style Sheets
• New Report Designer features such as snap lines, cross-section controls, granular control over text and labels, etc.

What's New in the Professional Edition

• Adobe Flash Report Viewer for end users
• PDF Reporting with Digital Signatures and timestamps
• Toolstrip controls in End User Report Designer
• Redistributable Help for End User Report Designer

Features New to Version 3.0

ActiveReports for .NET Designer

• Design-Time PREview tab
• Component tray for design-time work with .NET data providers
• Enhanced Report Explorer with Parameters and Calculated Fields
• Design-time support for custom parameters
• Design-time unbound fields

ActiveReports for .NET Viewer

• Annotations in the Viewer Control
• Multiple tab pages for linked items
• Web links open within the Viewer Control

ActiveReports for .NET Reporting Engine

• Chart control expanded with seven new chart types
• ReportInfo Control for page N of M or report run date

Awards and Recognitions

May 7, 2009 - Finalist in the 2009 asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards

March 13, 2009 - Ranked #4 and #5 in the 2008 ComponentSource Bestselling Publishers List

March 13, 2009 - Ranked #2 in the 2008 ComponentSource Bestselling Products List

Feb 9, 2009 - ActiveReports Customers Give .NET Reporting and BI Tools High Ratings

May 15, 2006 - SD Times 100 Winner in the Components category

June 2, 2008 - SD Times 100 Finalist in the Components category

May 15, 2007 - SD Times 100 Finalist in the Components category

Feb 9 2007 - 2006 ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher

Feb 9 2007 - 2006 ComponentSource Bestselling Product

More Features

ActiveReports for .NET Charting

• Funnel and Pyramid Charts (Shows how the percentage of each data item contributes to the whole)
• Gantt Charts (Used to graph the ProgresS of project tasks)
• Kagi Charts (Used to display supply and demand trends)
• Point and Figure Charts (Used to define pricing trends)
• Renko Charts (Used to keep track of price movement)
• Three Line Break Charts (Used to illustrate price changes)

ActiveReports for .NET Report Designer

• Full integration with the Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008 environment
• Familiar user interface
• C# and Visual Basic .NET support
• The ability to compile reports into the application for speed and security or to keep them separate for ease of updating
• Report Wizard and Microsoft Access Report Import Wizard
• Designer hosting of .NET 3rd party controls and user controls
• Fully exposed Object Model
• Dynamic report building or modification
• Report Creation API with complete run-time access to report objects and members

ActiveReports for .NET Data Access

• OLEDB and SqlClient report data sources
• Flexible XML datasource
• Binds to Dataset, DataView, DataTable, any RowCollection, and any class that implements the iList interface
• DataSource property can be modified at run time to create ad hoc (dynamic) reports
• Flexible unbound data

ActiveReports for .NET Report Viewer

• Created with managed C# code
• Supports small deployment assembly, suitable for use on the Internet
• Provides TOC/Bookmarks and thumbnail views
• Allows hyperlinking
• Provides export filters for RTF, PDF, EXCEL, HTML, TIFF, and text

ActiveReports for .NET End-User Report Designer

• Allows you to host the designer in your application and distribute it royalty-free
• Provides end-user report editing capabilities
• Provides easy access for saving and loading report layouts
• Allows you to monitor and control the design environment
• Allows you to customize the look and feel to the needs of end users

ActiveReports for .NET: ASP.NET Features (Professional Version)

• Allows quick viewing of ActiveReports on the web with the Web Viewer control
• Provides printing capability with the ActiveX viewer and Acrobat Reader viewerType properties with the Web Viewer control
• Provides an RPX files HTTP Handler to allow you to place a report on your web server and make it available via hyperlink to your internet users in HTML or PDF
• Provides a Compiled Report HTTP Handler to allow direct access via hyperlink to an ActiveReport compiled in an assembly on your server

ActiveReports for .NET: Deployment Features

• Reporting Engine is a single managed strongnamed assembly
• Assemblies can be distributed using XCopy or the global assembly cache (GAC)
• Royalty-free distribution

Supported document formats

• Adobe Portable Document Format (*.pdf);
• HTML Web Page (*.html);
• MHTML Single-File Web Page (*.mht);
• Rich Text Format (*.rtf);
• Microsoft Excel Workbook (*.xls);
• Plain Text (*.txt);
• Comma-Separated Values (*.csv);
• Image formats: (*.bmp, *.jpeg, *.gif, *.tiff, *.png, *.emf).

Supported report items

• SubReport
• Chart
• Label
• Line
• Picture Box
• Check Box
• Page Break
• Report Information
• Rich Text Box
• Shape
• Bar Code
• OLE Object
• Any 3-rd party controls (charts, grids, calendars, etc.)

External links

• ActiveReports Overview
• ActiveReports Features
• What's new in the ActiveReports 6 Beta
• ActiveReports for .NET at ComponentSource
• Press Release: GrapeCity acquires Data Dynamics
• Press Release:GrapeCity-Data Dynamics Announces New ActiveReports/BI Suite for .NET
• GrapeCity, inc.
• Crystal Reports vs ActiveReports
• EggheadCafe for .NET developers on ActiveReports
• ActiveReports on Twitter