FastReport FMX now supports FireMonkey 2 (Embarcadero RAD Studio XE3, Delphi XE3) as well as the previous version of FireMonkey (Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2). 

We have fixed a series of bugs and improved the speed and stability of reporting on Windows and on Mac OS X.
For example – the bug with setting up FastReport VCL and FastReport FMX in the same IDE. You also need to download the current build of FastReport VCL from your customer panel. 

All users of FastReport FMX beta can download the release for free and all users of FastReport VCL can purchase it with a discount via their customer panel.

How to use FastReports reporting on 64-bit platforms. A new article in our blog.

And yes, we know about 64-bit Delphi and C++Builder (which should be available very soon). FastReport VCL supports them.

Video of our session on Delphi CodeRage 7

And you can still buy licences for our report generators for Embarcadero Delphi / C++Builder with the CodeRage discount

Both FastReport VCL and FMX support C++Builder - take part in our session at the CodeRage 7 C++ Conference on 11th December

New level of data analysis!

I. Grids
   1. Improvements to source data grid
   2. Closer to the native look of Windows with enabled themes
   3. Gradient drawing
II. Data analysis
   1. Optimized axis operations
   2. New dimension attribute for single choice (radio filter)
   3. Groups
   4.Totals have many new features
   5. Ranks for measures
   6. Tree-like axis
   7. Data highlighting
   8. Status panel
   9. Use of FastScript
   10. Export
III. Cube
   1. Splits
   2. Loading from custom storage
   3. Data conversion during the load process
   4. Custom field calculation during the load process
   5. Add/remove operations on fields after the load
   6. Append data to an active cube
IV. Global filter

We announce powerfull beta-testing of FastCube 2 VCL!

What does it mean?

• - Trial versions of FastCube 2 for all supported IDEs are available here: http://www.fast-report.com/en/download/fast-cube-2/
• - All who ordered FastCube 1 from now to date of release of FastCube 2 (approximately May 2013) will get FastCube 2 for free (beta - today and release then).
• - All customers of FastCube 1 can order FastCube 2 with great discount (see customer panel)

We glad to inform you about new version of FastReport.Net with support MVC is one of the most modern technology for web development. MVC is available in Win+WebForms and Professional editions. Read our blog to get more information. Besides, we added  Google Drive for saving your reports to the cloud. 

+ added support of ASP.NET MVC framework (ASPX, Razor) in WebReport
+ added new demos using WebReport in MVC - \Demos\C#\MvcDemo, \Demos\C#\MvcRazor
+ added save in cloud Google Drive from preview
+ added Greek localization
* IMPORTANT! changed extension of WebReport handler (from FastReport.Export.aspx to FastReport.Export.axd),
please check existing web.config
- fixed bug in Dropbox export when Application Key and Secret
- fixed bug in Dropbox with NullReferenceException
- fixed bug with encoding when importing dDase file of Map in DBX export
- fixed excel numeric formats bug
- fixed bug with broken formats after matrix optimization in Excel 2007 export
- fixed bug with font transparency of empty cells in Excel 2007 export
- fixed bug with cell duplication on merged cells in Excel 2007 export
- fixed bug with embedding of monospaced fonts in PDF and XPS exports
- fixed bugs in WebReport with styles
- fixed bug with WebReport.RepotDone
- fixed bug with MasterPages in WebReport
- fixed bug with printing chart legend
- fixed bug in PictureObject

We have released FastReport .Net 2013.2 with MVC support. And I'd like to inform all WebReport developers about some changes.

First. An extension of the handler in web.config was changed. You need replace old string «FastReport.Export.aspx» to new string «FastReport.Export.axd» everywere. Web application without these changes will throw an exception and you will see text with error and instructions for changes in web.report. more...

Good news!

We ranked in 63rd place in ComponentSource Top 100 publisher list, up from 78th place last year. 

1. Improved integration with FastReport: reports now use grid highlights and style. Fixed cell autosize options: adjust width, adjust width with restrictions and adjust height.

2. Added FireDac support.

3. Extended scripting abilities:

 a. «Calc all cells» option –to build calculated measure for empty cells (which does not have records in source dataset),

 b. calculate totals with script,

 c. “FormulaDetail” aggregate - calculate measure values on source data (not on other measures).

4. Copytoclipboardnowcopiesheaders.

We often use zebra striping of table data for easy viewing the reports. Highlighting even rows is good for viewing but they look strange on paper or in Excel table.  FastReport users have two methods for using highlighting only in preview window.

Method #1

You need to open report in the Designer and open the Style Editor from Report-Styles menu. Then we add a style with name "EvenRows" and set needed background color for even lines.  Then you need to set a band property EvenStyle = EvenRows. more...

The object WebReport from FastReport .Net use jQuery library. You already can use this library in your own project.

To avoid duplication of boot scripts and styles jQuery to the client browser when working with markup Razor, you need to use the following lines in_Layout.cshtml:

        @WebReportGlobals.ScriptsWOjQuery()
        @WebReportGlobals.StylesWOjQuery()

instead of the others, which include all jQuery files:

        @WebReportGlobals.Scripts()
        @WebReportGlobals.Styles()

You need to set the property ExternalJquery = true (default false) when you working with ASPX markup. more...

When you use the FastReport .Net together ASP.Net MVC framework you have easy method for creating file in any supported format on button press in HTML form.

Add next code in View:

 @using (Html.BeginForm("GetFile", "Home"))
 {
         <input id="pdf" type="submit" value="Export to PDF" />
 }

GetFile - name of controller handler, Home - name of controller (HomeController.cs for example)

Add name space in controller: more...

Report generator for Embarcadero FireMonkey IDE. 

+ Added support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 (iOS not supported)

+ Added support of FireMonkey FM3
+ Added support of internal datasets: IBX, DBX, ADO (Win)
+ Added new internal dataset TfrxClientDataset (allow to load XML tables
from the report)
+ Added linear barcodes component (2_5_interleaved, 2_5_industrial,
2_5_matrix, Code39, Code39 Extended, Code128, Code93, Code93 Extended,
MSI, PostNet, Codebar, EAN8, EAN13, UPC_A, UPC_E0, UPC_E1, UPC Supp2,
UPC Supp5, EAN128)
+ Added Hint system in the report designer, preview and the report
+ Added 2D barcodes: PDF417, DataMatrix
+ Added TfrxDBLookupComboBox control - for compatibility with FR4VCL reports
- Fixed error when TfrxPreview wasn't available in the component palette
- Fixed some printing problems in XE3
- Fixed error with toolbar buttons icons in the report designer
- Fixed AV in some report editors
- Fixed errors in some dialog form components
- Fixed Font height rounding when zooming report
- Fixed error when trying to set Color property from the report script code

FastReportFMX customers can upgrade to new version for free.

FastReport VCL customers can buy via cpanel with 50% discount.

What's New in RAD Studio XE4

- Multi-device, true native app development
- Develop apps for iPhone and iPad
- iOS user interface controls
- Rapid prototyping
- IBLite and SQLite iOS database support
- Multi-tier client support for DataSnap, web services and enterprise databases
- Access more databases, on more devices, more easily with FireDAC
- FireMonkey FM3 Application Platform. More information on the Embarcadero website.

+ Added Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 support

- [Lazarus] fixed bug with text output
- [Lazarus] fixed bug with some visual controls in designer
- [Lazarus] improved interface of the report preview and designer
- [Lazarus] fixed bug with boolean propertyes in script code and expressions
- fixed bug with endless loop in TfrxRichView
- fixed bug with Unicode in TfrxMemoView appeared in previous release
- improved MAPI interface in TfrxExportMail export
- fixed some problems with allpication styles XE2/XE3
- improved compatibility with Fast Report FMX

Modern mobile technologies provide worldwide access to any information. FastReport .Net brings reports in your favorite tablet or phone, and helps you communicate with dialogs. more...

Visual Studio Express Edition by Microsoft is a popular software development enveronment. It is popular also because it is free. By the way this tool as all that is free has some lacks. In particular complexities with using some add-onces, third party components.

For example many popular component-packs for .Net have reporting tools in set. Often they use developers environment of Visual Studio (fully or partially) as the visual report development environment. But such way is impossible in Express Edition.

FastReport.Net uses another approach. There are own fully independent report designer which can be called from application (from Winforms Edition and higher). That is Visual Studioàs envirinment does not need for visual design of reports. read more...