Design-Time Reporting with XtraReports

DevExpress XtraReports profoundly supports Visual Studio design time and provides a friendly and intuitive user interface.

Full Visual Studio .NET Integration

Our report designer is completely integrated into Visual Studio .NET (2008 and 2010), so if you are accustomed to the Visual Studio design time, you should feel comfortable with the designer.

The report designer for Visual Studio provides special panels that simplify the process of data binding, managing a report's structure, as well as data grouping and sorting. The Field List, Report Explorer, Scripts Errors, and Group and Sort panels can be enabled via the XtraReports entry in the Visual Studio Main menu. In addition, XtraReports integrates a toolbar that allows you to easily customize control text options.

The design panel provides a design-time report preview, so you do not need to re-compile your application each time you have made a change to see how it affects your report's layout.

An additional Scripts tab provides a convenient way to manage and validate all scripts in your report.

Intelligent Report Wizard

XtraReports ships with a convenient wizard that allows you to get the report you want as quickly as possible. It includes a Label Wizard that supports hundreds of standard label types.

In-Place Editing and Mail-Merge

To edit control text, you need to simply double-click the control. Moreover, you can easily embed a data field's value into a control's text by simply enclosing the field's name in square brackets. Learn more...

Smart Control Positioning

You can precisely position report elements with the help of the designer grid and snap lines.

In addition, XtraReports provides numerous options for smart positioning and sizing of report controls based on the amount of their dynamic content and the position of their neighboring elements within a report.