Standard Edition Features

ActiveReports for .NET 2.0 is an enhancement of the popular ActiveReports for .NET engine and report viewer. It includes the same power and flexibility of ActiveReports for .NET and the same integration with the Visual Studio® .NET 2003 Environment, and adds several new features including integration with the Visual Studio .NET 2005 Environment. ActiveReports for .NET 2.0 Standard Edition supports the following features:

Designer

Full integration with the .NET environment
Familiar user interface
C# and VB.NET support
The ability to compile reports into the application for speed and security or to keep them separate for ease of updating
Designer hosting of .NET and user controls

Report Controls

Label
Textbox
Checkbox
Picture
Line
Shape
RichText with new HTML tag support
Subreport
Pagebreak
Barcode with standard styles plus QRCode, Code49, JapanesePostal, and Pdf417
OleObject
NEW! Chart control with separate data source

Reporting Engine

Managed code
Binding to ADO.NET, XML, iList, and custom data sources
Easy deployment with the report processing engine as a single assembly DLL
All of the features of ActiveReports 2.0

Report Viewer

Managed C# code
Very small deployment assembly, suitable for use on the Internet
Table of Contents/Bookmarks
Thumbnail View
Hyper linking

Export Filters

ActiveReports includes export filters to generate output into Rich Text Format (RTF) for word-processing, Portable Document Format (PDF) for printing, Microsoft® Excel® worksheets, HTML and DHTML for publishing your reports to the internet, TIFF for optical archiving and faxing and delimited text for spreadsheets and databases.