XtraReports Suite is Now Available
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the XtraReports
Suite - our next generation reporting platform for Windows® Forms and
ASP.NET developers. Engineered from the ground up as a 100% managed
reporting platform, XtraReports was written in C# and offers full Visual
Studio .NET integration - giving you the ability to design reports in the
same exact way as you build Windows® Forms applications. XtraReports uses
the same code editor (C#, VB.NET or J#), the same Property Grid, the same
component Toolbox, the same alignment toolbar, and ALL available Visual
Studio IDE resources - so that you can fully leverage your existing skills
and expertise within Visual Studio.
Easy to Learn and Use: Intuitive Designer and API
Among the many issues developers have with today's reporting tools is the
learning curve associated with custom report designers. Riddled with quirks
and idiosyncrasies, walking through our competitor's report designer
minefield can be frustrating to say the least. This reality was foremost in
our minds when we created XtraReports - We felt it crucial not to introduce
any new design metaphors, simply give you the ability to re-use your current
expertise within the Visual Studio IDE to immediately master the use of our
product.
Flexibility and Strength
An easy-to-use reporting tools is not worth much, if it cannot give you
development options and the ability to address the needs of your most
demanding users. Though ease-of-use was crucial to our design objectives, we
were committed to giving you all the flexibility and design strength you
need to compete in the marketplace.
Whether you need to dynamically create reports or change the
behavior/appearance of the report and its controls at the Report, Band or
Control level, XtraReports provides you leading-edge capabilities unlike any
other product of its kind.
End User Report Designer
No reporting solution is truly complete without an end-user report designer.
As such, XtraReports ships with a complete end-user designer which allows
you to:
- Save and restore your report to an XML file or stream.
- Create your own End User Designer.
- Immediately preview your report using the built-in Preview and HTML Views.
- Change the text of a textbox, richtextbox and table cell using in-place editing.
- Drop fields from the Field List Explorer window to the Report to automatically create a label control bound to this field.
- A navigation window for quickly navigating through the controls in the report.
All in One - From Windows Forms to ASP.NET
Historically, web based reporting solutions have lagged far behind that of
Windows Forms reporting solutions. In addition to functional differences
between the 2 unique platforms, web developers are often forced to pay
outrageous deployment/royalty fees to a tool vendor.
XtraReports shatters this myth and offers ASP.NET developers the same
capabilities as those available to Windows Forms developers. And best of
all, with XtraReports, deployment/royalty fees are A THING OF THE PAST.
Once you license a copy of XtraReports, you are entitled to deploy your solution
for any supported platform - be it Windows Forms or ASP.NET - without any
additional fees!
So how easy is it to render a report for an ASP.NET application...Easy as
1-2-3! Drop an ASP.NET Report Viewer control on an ASP.NET page. Set its
Report name property to that of the report you wish to render. Generate the
web page.
Deployment is a Breeze
So, you've created your reports and are ready to provide them to your
end-users. XtraReports makes deployment a breeze by allowing you to place
them into the global assembly cache (GAC) or to deploy the assemblies using
"xcopy."
Of course, no discussion of deployment ease can ignore the issues of cost.
As mentioned earlier, XtraReports is available ROYALTY FREE. This applies to
Windows Forms, ASP.NET and our End-User Designer.
Full Source Code is Available
As the first component vendor to ship a commercial component for the .NET
Framework, we shocked many when we offered the FULL SOURCE CODE for all of
our components at an affordable price. Our commitment for this option
continues with XtraReports. You can obtain the ENTIRE source code for the
XtraReports Suite and can rest assured that you will always be in control of
your application's destiny.
To learn more about the XtraReports Suite, visit our product information page at: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Reporting
To download a fully functional trial version, visit us online at: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/WinForms/XtraReports
To order your copy, visit our online order form at: https://www.devexpress.com/ClientCenter/Order/?group=.NET
Thank you and best wishes,
The DevExpress Team
www.devexpress.com