You can use XtraReports in any of the supported platforms (Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and LightSwitch) to create your reports using Visual Studio 2008 or 2010, as well as Visual Studio LightSwitch.

Help Topic: Getting Started with XtraReports

The XtraReports Suite provides a special reporting extension for Visual Studio LightSwitch, which allows you to easily embed report preview screens into your LightSwitch applications.

Help Topic: LightSwitch Reports Lessons | Video: WinForms End-User Report Designer - An Introduction

For Windows Forms reporting, the XtraReports Suite provides functional print preview controls, a stand-alone End-User Report Designer and complete integration into Visual Studio design time.

Help Topic: WinForms Reports Lessons | Video: WinForms End-User Report Designer - An Introduction

For ASP.NET, the XtraReports Suite provides a report preview and navigation bar controls, so that you can integrate your reports into a Web application.

Help Topic: ASP.NET Reports Lessons | Video: Getting Started with XtraReports for ASP.NET | Demo: ASP.NET Reports

The XtraReports Suite provides a fully-featured ASP.NET MVC extension with Razor support.

Help Topic: ASP.NET MVC Reports Lessons | Demo: ASP.NET MVC Reporting | Blog: Reporting Extension for ASP.NET MVC

You can easily integrate reports generated with the XtraReports Suite into your WPF application by using our DocumentPreview control.

Help Topic: WPF Reports Lessons | Video: Reporting with WPF (and MVVM) | Demo: WPF Reporting

For Silverlight, XtraReports provides a flexible and feature-rich Document Preview control, so you can display reports in Silverlight applications.

Help Topic: Silverlight Reports Lessons | Video: Reporting with Silverlight (and MVVM) | Demo: Silverlight Reporting

XtraReports provides all tools that may be necessary to create professional cross-platform reports of virtually any type, including hierarchical master-detail reports, table and multi-column reports, as well as interactive drill-down and drill-through reports.

Help Topic: Report Types

The XtraReports Suite allows you to create mail merge reports by embedding data field placeholders into a rich text control's content.

Help Topic: Embedded Fields (Mail Merge) | Help Topic: Rich Text

With the XtraReports Suite, you can choose between two approaches to creating master-detail reports: by creating a hierarchy of nested Detail Report Bands or by using the XRSubreport control to show separate detail reports within a master report.

Help Topic: Master-Detail Report

The XtraReports Suite allows you to create tables and newspaper-style multi-column reports with ease.

Help Topic: Table Report | Help Topic: Multi-Column Report

With over 1500 supported Label types, our Report Wizard becomes an indispensable tool to produce labels and badges of various kinds.

Help Topic: Labels

Our reporting tool provides sophisticated controls to embed pivot tables and charts of numerous types into your reports.

Help Topic: Cross-Tab Report | Help Topic: Using Report Elements - Chart

You can present data from different reports side-by-side, as well as merge multiple reports into a single document, while preserving their original page settings.

Help Topic: Side-by-Side Reports | Help Topic: Combining Reports

As a powerful extension to the general data shaping capabilities of the XtraReports Suite, report parameters allow you to create the most complex reports without writing a single line of code.

Help Topic: Using Report Parameters

Using special events, you can easily provide interactivity to your reports, e.g., create drill-down and drill-through reports; as well as allow your end-users to manipulate reports directly in Print Preview.

Help Topic: Drill-Down Report | Help Topic: Drill-Through Report

The XtraReports Suite supports the most popular barcode types available on the market.

Help Topic: Barcode

XtraReports works with all data objects supported by Visual Studio .NET. Moreover, you can bind a report to XML data or to any data object implementing the IList, IList<T> and IEnumerable<T> interfaces, as well as XPO data sources. You can create a data source object, fill it with data and supply it to a report entirely at runtime. The capability of XML data source serialization is also available.

Help Topic: Providing Data to Reports

XtraReports provides powerful instruments for multi-level filtering, grouping and sorting of data. You can easily calculate either a pre-defined, or a custom summary function (transferable to scripts, which helps deliver this functionality to the End-User Designer), create calculated fields (to pre-process your data) and define report parameters (to create variable reports based on user-defined, dynamic or hard-wired values).

Help Topic: Shaping Data

The Report Designer is completely integrated into Visual Studio .NET (2008, 2010 and LightSwitch), 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 make the process of data binding, managing a report's structure and data grouping/sorting as easy as possible.

Help Topic: Design-Time Features

XtraReports supports exporting to PDF, HTML, MHT, RTF, TXT, CSV, XPS, Microsoft Excel (both XLS and XLSX) and image (BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WMF). For each export format, numerous specific export options are available.

Help Topic: Exporting

For each supported platform, XtraReports provides an integral and sophisticated Print Preview to preview your report documents, print and export them. Our Print Preview provides a user interface for displaying a report document map (for easier navigation through complex reports) and modifying report parameter values (for dynamic manipulating with reports). The capability of complete Print Preview customization is also available.

Help Topic: Print Preview

In Print Preview, you can simplify the navigation through complex and hierarchical reports by utilizing a Document Map that shows the hierarchy of report bookmarks in a tree-like form.

XtraReports provides an intuitive, easy-to-use, powerful, adjustable and extremely functional Report Designer for Windows Forms. It provides a familiar user interface that is similar to Visual Studio design time and has a variable look-and-feel.

Help Topic: End-User Reporting in Windows Forms

For Silverlight, the XtraReports Suite provides a lightweight in-browser Report Designer that allows your end-users to modify the layout and appearance of their reports on the fly. This Report Designer can also be equipped with a Report Wizard for Silverlight, allowing your end-users to create new data-aware reports from scratch.

Help Topic: End-User Reporting in Silverlight

With XtraReports, you can create complex styles to precisely control the look-and-feel of a report. You can even apply them conditionally to reflect certain states (for instance, even and odd styles for rows) and store them in separate sheets. Moreover, using conditional formatting, you can customize the appearance of any report element based on complex logical conditions. In addition, XtraReports provides full support for native DevExpress skins.

Help Topic: Appearance Customization

XtraReports supports the localization of every interface element, including the End-User Report Designer. Both imperial (inches) and metric (centimeters) units of measurement are supported; you can switch between these measuring systems in an entire report by switching a single property.

Help Topic: Localization

You can easily import your old reports from MS Access, Crystal Reports or Data Dynamics Active Reports into XtraReports.